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Silas House Biography

Writer

Silas House is an American writer born in 1971. His works span various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and essays. House's writing touches on a wide range of themes, such as social justice, environmental protection, and identity.

Strength Parenting Hopes

Book:Southernmost

Source: Southernmost

“I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?”

Society Goodness Good And Evil Conflicts

Book:A Parchment of Leaves

Source: A Parchment of Leaves

“She had woken up with the song swirling around in her mind and couldn't make it sizzle down her arm and out onto the stiff strings of her fiddle.”

Music Songwriting

Book:Clay's Quilt

Source: Clay's Quilt

“Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.”

Ifs Long Enough Might Given Waiting Secret Written Information Surface Touched Secret Life

Author:Silas House

“I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.”

Hands Found Silence Tree Words Of Wisdom Comfort Noble

Book:A Parchment of Leaves: A Novel

Source: A Parchment of Leaves: A Novel

“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”

Stills Sometimes Can Do Libertarian Best Things Just Being Graduation Right To Bear Arms Bearing Arms 2 Amendment Creative Outlets Gun Safety High School Graduation Speech High School Commencement

Book:Eli the Good

Source: Eli the Good

“I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.”

People Running Understood Rain Miles Holes Swimming Summertime Miles To Go

Author:Silas House

“I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.”

Writing Character Stories Secret Economy Pieces Mystery Students Keys Sentences Love Story Good Writing Single Sentence

Author:Silas House

“Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart”

People Heart Made Two Seems Hate Grief Cry Stronger Strongest Daddy Conjuring

Author:Silas House

“Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.”

People Sometimes Night Best Family

Author:Silas House

“Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.”

Ifs Whole Forever Scene Slips Ink

Author:Silas House

“Writing is a supernatural thing.”

Writing

Author:Silas House

“In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.”

People Way Real Alive New York Building Mountain

Book:Same Sun Here

Source: Same Sun Here

“Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.”

Real Moments Bigs Happens Faces Actors Forever Strange Cameras Extraordinary Things Happen Real Life Realization Pulling Viewers Extraordinary Things Crescendo Pulling Away

Author:Silas House

“Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.”

Ifs Want Doe Country Nations Poverty Rich Areas Ashamed Urban Appalachia Urban Areas

Author:Silas House

“But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data—something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.”

People Knows Heart Feelings Light Eye Hate Brain Complexes Data Cracks Heart And Brain

Author:Silas House

About the Author

Born: 1971
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 16

Books & Sources

A Parchment of LeavesRelated source material

A Parchment of Leaves: A NovelRelated source material

Clay's QuiltRelated source material

Eli the GoodRelated source material

Same Sun HereRelated source material

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