Top 9 Quotes by Allan Gurganus

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

People, Stories, Sugar

FaceBook post by Allan Gurganus from Aug 10, 2010

Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.

Allan Gurganus

Simple, Shapes, Littles

FaceBook post by Allan Gurganus from Mar 20, 2011

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Allan Gurganus

Different, Kind, Knows

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

Allan Gurganus

Years, Fifty, Lasts

Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Allan Gurganus

Ears, Pages, Kind

I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there really was such a job. And if he could just write a poem that incorporated everything he felt and suspected and hoped for from America that he would have the position.

Allan Gurganus

Jobs, Believe, Writing