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Anne Rivers Siddons is an American novelist born on January 9, 1936. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound character portrayals, with notable titles including 'The Season of Love' and 'The Summer Story'.

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All Thinking Ifs Sea Way Feels Knows Our Lives Said Sometimes Southern

Famous Anne Rivers Siddons Quotes

“...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...”

Metaphor Simile

Book:Sweetwater Creek

Source: Sweetwater Creek

“Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.”

Anger Rewards Excuse

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.”

Thinking Country Dream Artist Dark Creativity Creative Impulse

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.”

Giving

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.”

Theory Southern Gifted Madhouses

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.”

Ifs Way Needs Long Seems Sea Return Spring Rain Core Vines Overflow Elementals Soaking Spring Rain Wetness

Book:House Next Door

Source: House Next Door

“I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.”

Stills Care Running Young Sun Sea Arms Hot Wide Naked Beach Sand Diamond Plunge Fling Windy

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.”

Water Laughter Lips Fishes Warm Tiny

Book:Downtown

Source: Downtown

“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.”

Air Blood Sea Complicated Warm Southern Thick Richness Mist

Book:Colony

Source: Colony

“Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.”

Ifs Looks Stars Missing Look Up

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.”

Firsts Said Eye Remember Stars Felt Tears Drinking Monk Champagne Tasting

Book:Downtown

Source: Downtown

“I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.”

Thinking Knows Feels Sometimes Happens Our Lives Seasons Down And Divides Timeless Deep Down Tranquil Suspended Great Change

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.”

Thinking Sometimes Serious Caught Just Being Caught Up

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.”

Way Life Important Life Is Our Lives Important Things

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.”

Writing Littles Unimaginable

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.”

Writing Said Book Easy Depends Research Veins Typewriters

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.”

Thinking Bigs Community Interesting Cities Particular Sweet Charming Big Cities Charleston

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Done Sequels

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.”

Real Light Friends Real Friends Real Friendship

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

About the Author

Born: January 9, 1936
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 19

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