Quotes by Silas House

About Silas House:

Silas Dwane House is an American writer best known for his novels. He is also a music journalist, environmental activist and columnist. House's fiction is known for its attention to the natural world, working class characters, and the plight of the rural place and rural people.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Silas House

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

Silas House

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

Silas House

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I wa...

Silas House

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a sec...

Silas House

Author Bio

  • NameSilas House
  • DescriptionNovelist, music journalist, columnist
  • Born1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist