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I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

The precious ordinary. I

Sins of omission, Louis said.
You don't believe in sins.
I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

You're going to die some day without ever having had enough trouble in your life. Not of the right kind anyway.

You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

gate at the chain-link fence

So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said.
'Except it feels good now, at this moment.

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.

I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long - all my life. I'm not going to live that way anymore.

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

But we didn't know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we'd grown up with.

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.

Our Souls at Night open onto larger insights about getting older?

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

This don't look like no Sunday school church meeting to me.

Well, I'm just going to say it.
I'm listening, Louis said.
I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing.

This ain't going to be no goddamn Sunday school picnic.

Oh I feel better already talking with you here next to me.

FORTY YEARS AGO,

It was surprising to him, how quickly she could fall asleep.