Anita Shreve Quotes

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.

'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

I don't know how to be hurt.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

There's a difference between being injured and being hurt.

I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.