Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
From Anne Tyler
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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