"Cross Creek" Quotes

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

There are two kinds of discontent in this world: the discontent that works and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first but success and there's no cure at all for the second.

I feel the pull of the earth and the sky. I feel the breath of the marsh, the warmth of the sun.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

I have been told once or twice that I have a gift for words. I believe that the gift can be nurtured by the act of writing.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

There is no bitterness like that of a child who has been deserted by his father.

For the first time, I was no longer a seeker. I had come upon the thing I sought, and now I could see it, touch it, hold it, and be it.

He looked at me with a gleam of mirth and understanding in his eyes, as though he had suddenly seen that I was a woman, and that he had never realized it before.