Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.
From Jane Hamilton
All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.
We didn't have a TV until I was 12.
In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.
I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.
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