Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Carol Anshaw

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Carol Anshaw.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Carol Anshaw is an American novelist and short story writer. Publishing Triangle named her debut novel, Aquamarine, one of "The Triangle’s 100 Best" gay and lesbian novels of the 1990s. Four of her books have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and Lucky in the Corner won the 2003 Ferro-Grumley Award.

American - Novelist | Born: 1946

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You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

Carol Anshaw

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

Carol Anshaw

Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?

Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Carol Anshaw

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

Carol Anshaw

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

Carol Anshaw

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

Carol Anshaw

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

Carol Anshaw

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Carol Anshaw

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Anshaw

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

Carol Anshaw

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

Carol Anshaw