A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.
Books and marriage go ill together.