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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
I'm falling into disrepair
How plotless real life was!
... everyone must play his role.
When I read, I'm purely a reader
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
I spend about a year between novels
I spend about a year between novels.
My stories are never quite good enough
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
When you have children, you're obligated to live.
Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
I write because I want to have more than one life.
Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
