Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
From Christina Baker Kline
I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.
I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.
My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.
I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.
Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.
My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.
Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.
There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.
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