Ron Franscell famous quotes

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.
-- Ron Franscell

#Journey #Where You Come #Where You Belong

Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.
-- Ron Franscell

#Memories #House #Faces

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.
-- Ron Franscell

#Sweat #Pages #Born

A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.
-- Ron Franscell

#Dream #Bullying #Insecurity

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers, even funnier than Louise Erdrich, even more primal than Jim Harrison, and even more eloquent than Annie Proulx.
-- Ron Franscell

#Littles #West #Annie

One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.
-- Ron Franscell

#Past #Voice #Effort

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.
-- Ron Franscell

#Haunting #Pages #Berserk

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on it, if you want something bad enough, nothing can stop you.

You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?

I belong where you belong