Quote

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

Sara Gruen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sara Gruen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Vancouver
British Columbia
Crazier
Makes
Writing
Thing

More quotes by Sara Gruen

Image
The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
Sara Gruen
Image
Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
Sara Gruen
Image
I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.
Sara Gruen
Image
I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.
Sara Gruen
Image
It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here
Sara Gruen
Image
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
Sara Gruen
Image
He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. He's ill, Jacob. I say nothing. He's a paragon schnitzophonic. He's what?! Paragon schnitzophonic, repeats Uncle Al. You mean paranoid schizophrenic? Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.
Sara Gruen
Image
Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.
Sara Gruen
Image
But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.
Sara Gruen
Image
Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?
Sara Gruen
Image
I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.
Sara Gruen
Image
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
Sara Gruen
Image
Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.
Sara Gruen
Image
Being the survivor stinks.
Sara Gruen
Image
...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
Sara Gruen
Image
Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
Sara Gruen
Image
How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol? We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season, she says taking her seat again. Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.
Sara Gruen
Image
I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
Sara Gruen
Image
Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.
Sara Gruen
Image
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Sara Gruen