Christine Sneed

“There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.”
― Christine Sneed, Paris, He Said

“It was all still there, an immense quilt of bold, fantastical human will: the faded tawny golds and grays of the descending rooftops and scorched chimney pots, the cold steel-blue river with its fabled Left and Right Banks, the towers and steeples and crooked cobblestone streets, bisected by wide, brutish boulevards. As seductive as a mirage, but every slab of stone, every silent or uproarious inch of it, real. She had not returned triumphant as a brilliant painter or a self-made woman whose only worry about money was how to spend it ... but she had come back to Paris anyway. It was hard to imagine being unhappy here.”
― Christine Sneed, Paris, He Said

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.”
― Raymond Carver

“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.”
― Mary Heaton Vorse

“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”
― Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl