Nine of My Favorite Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 9 Famous Quotes by Author Madison Smartt Bell, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Madison Smartt Bell you will find my Nine favorites of Madison Smartt Bell’s quotes.
About Madison Smartt Bell
Madison Smartt Bell is a critically acclaimed writer of more than a dozen novels and story collections, as well as essays and reviews published in Harper’s and the New York Times Book Review. He has been nominated for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has also taught at prestigious creative writing programs such as the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Johns Hopkins, and Goucher College. Its historical and philosophical scope is matched by a remarkable sensitivity to the individual voices of marginalized characters.
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Popular Quotes
“It’s a marriage of convenience. Temporarily, so long as our interests coincide, however long it takes to dispose of that mob of petit blancs at Port-au-Prince. Afterward,’ he waved his sticky fingers airily, ‘everything will return to the way it was before.”
― Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls’ Rising
“Nothing could have been prevented. But still you know that somehow something wasn’t watching. Something let attention lapse, releasing everything that follows, as the weight falls from the air.”
― Madison Smartt Bell, Zig Zag Wanderer: Stories from Here, Stories from There
“(In principle, this is a useful idea for writers at all stages: if a good story plot somehow won’t work out right, it may be that the point of view is in the wrong place.) There”
― Madison Smartt Bell, Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form
“We don’t kill for no reason. As he spoke, the hummingbird pulsed between his palms like a heartbeat, whirred into the air and flew.”
― Madison Smartt Bell, Zig Zag Wanderer: Stories from Here, Stories from There
“The city of the dead is older and more vast than the city of the living, and the dead possess the power and patience of infinity.”
― Madison Smartt Bell, The Year of Silence
“No, she had no belief–none. She was completely alone with herself. The world was empty for her, but she didn’t know it.”
― Madison Smartt Bell, Zig Zag Wanderer: Stories from Here, Stories from There
“Sometimes you don’t get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.”
― Madison Smartt Bell
“Here, when you looked into darkness, there was God.”
― Madison Smartt Bell, Zig Zag Wanderer: Stories from Here, Stories from There
“In your love, my salvation lies.”
― Madison Smartt Bell, Zig Zag Wanderer: Stories from Here, Stories from There
9 Famous Quotes by Author Madison Smartt Bell
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