
People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music. —
Susannah McCorkle

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast. —
Jill McCorkle

The gospel produced order, life, and purpose among the Thessalonians because it was a gospel of the Word and the Spirit. —
Rob McCorkle

There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging. —
Lemony Snicket

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol! —
Nicolas Roeg

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that. —
Susannah McCorkle

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry. —
Jo Coudert

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible. —
Jill McCorkle

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece ... This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. —
Jill McCorkle

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too. —
Susannah McCorkle

Finally she feels free - not perfect, not problem free, just free —
Jill McCorkle

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe. —
Jill McCorkle

I like to think I put some of myself in every character. —
Jill McCorkle

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. —
Joseph Joubert

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is. —
Jill McCorkle

Angeles in the plain-clothes division, —
Erle Stanley Gardner

You will never be as smart as your subconscious. —
Jill McCorkle

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts. —
Susannah McCorkle

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion. —
Susannah McCorkle

Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption. —
Jill McCorkle

Humor - I see it as a survival skill. —
Jill McCorkle

holidays took the poisons out of everyday life. —
Edna O'Brien

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too. —
Jill McCorkle

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. "Such a cool paradox." He said. —
Jill McCorkle

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way. —
Jill McCorkle

There was a sensual feel to the way Aiden's eyes traveled over her, leaving her tingling without even a touch. ~from The Secret of Spruce Knoll. —
Heather McCorkle

The pain of losing people you love is the price of the ticket for getting to know them at all. —
Jill McCorkle

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. —
Theodore Parker

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. —
Jill McCorkle