Quotes from Sarah Addison Allen

There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.