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I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

A lot of your problem was in your head. You see yourself screwing up, it's going to happen.

Daughters," he told her as they dug. "Nothing better than a good daughter.

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

You like to think you can count on a person. To hang around

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Some family's boat capsized at Lake Winnipesaukee the day before and now they were looking for the father's body.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster.
Adele, Henry's Mother

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

She was in love with love.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

If you act like something's too hard, it will be, he said. You got to believe it's possible.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

A good home must be made, not bought.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one,
but lovingly drawn.

It's like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by

I continued to protect him with my silence.

Love doesn't come and go when it's real. Love is supposed to be constant.