Robert James Waller
Robert James Waller
Robert James Walleris an American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, an enormously successful book in 1993. He is also a photographer and musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 August 1939
CountryUnited States of America
nice moving passion
Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.
august strange-places retrospect
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable
moving ignorance years
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.
giving-up heart territory
The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.
mother children moving
When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.
thinking here-i-am two
So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.
two lost two-of-us
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
long feelings sometimes
I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.
way feels
Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.
heart mind lost
if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts
firsts
First you must have the images, then come the words.
kissing bridges kind
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"
dream work-out vision
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
knowledge gypsy remember
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ...