Anita Shreve Quotes

Anita Shreve is an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School in Massachusetts, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading, Massachusetts. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.

Among other jobs, Shreve spent three years working as a journalist in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1999, while she was teaching Creative Writing at Amherst College, Oprah Winfrey called, selecting The Pilot's Wife for her book club. Since then, Shreve's novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.

In 2000, her novel The Weight of Water was made into a movie of the same title, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Sean Penn, Sarah Polley and Elizabeth Hurley. Two years later, her novel Resistance became a film of the same name and starred Bill Paxton and Julia Ormond. That same year CBS released as a movie of the week, The Pilot's Wife, starring Christine Lahti and John Heard.

She lives in New England.

✵ 7. October 1946 – 29. March 2018

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Fortune's Rocks

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The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water

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Fortune's Rocks

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Famous Anita Shreve Quotes

“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.”

Source: Where or When

“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

Anita Shreve book The Weight of Water

Source: The Weight of Water

“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”

“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”

Source: Testimony

“I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve Quotes about life

“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”

Source: Light on Snow

“A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.”

Source: Eden Close

“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”

Source: The Last Time They Met

“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”

Anita Shreve Quotes

“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

“Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”

Anita Shreve book Fortune's Rocks

Source: Fortune's Rocks

“Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

“Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.”

Anita Shreve book The Weight of Water

Source: The Weight of Water

“But how do you ever know that you know a person?”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

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