Don J. Snyder > Quotes

“Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.”
― Don J. Snyder, Of Time and Memory: My Parents' Love Story

“Everyone wants to marry and Irish girl, they have the most beautiful babies.”
― Don J. Snyder

“All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off.”
― Don J. Snyder

“Every love story is a small boat set upon an open sea.”
― Don J. Snyder, Winter Dreams

“All great literature is about longing. The same is true with music. People can buy anything they want or need at the mall or on line. But they cannot buy what they long for. That is where writers come in. We deliver what people long for.”
― Don J. Snyder, Walking with Jack: A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie

“That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my mouth shut. In my silence I felt our common ground: here we were, two men, neither young, neither with money, neither earning a penny or holding down a job or owning a house, both thoroughly confused by the way the world was turning.”
― Don J. Snyder, The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found