Author: Lee Smith

Cites

• Cort Conley (1)
  • IN: The Last Girls (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Sometimes life is more like a river than a book."
    FROM: Conversation between Lee Smith and Cort Conley, (1965), Conversation, US
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1)
  • IN: Guests on Earth (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
    FROM: letter to daughter, Scottie, (1940), Letter, US
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Guests on Earth (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?
    FROM: Among School Children, (1926), Poem, Ireland
• Eudora Welty (1)
  • IN: Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily—perhaps not possibly—chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.
    FROM: One Writer's Beginnings, (1984), Book, US