Quotes by Alan Brennert

About Alan Brennert:

Alan Brennert is an American author, television producer and screenwriter. Brennert has lived in Southern California since 1973 and completed graduate work in screenwriting at the University of California Los Angeles.
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Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Alan Brennert

Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with the pink and white puffs of blossoming monkeypods...

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Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, an...

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Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

Alan Brennert

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

Alan Brennert

An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would hav...

Alan Brennert

What's it like? Being married? Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

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Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

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she would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.

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We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to star...

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Author Bio

  • NameAlan Brennert
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Novelist
  • AwardsNebula Award; Emmy Award