Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic." Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011

Amy Hill Hearth

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There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

Amy Hill Hearth


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Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany

Amy Hill Hearth

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When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!

A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany

Amy Hill Hearth

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Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all of us. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years)

Amy Hill Hearth

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It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society")

Amy Hill Hearth

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...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Amy Hill Hearth


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...one person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.

Amy Hill Hearth

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Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

Amy Hill Hearth

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I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.

Amy Hill Hearth


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