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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

Life is full of things you never figured on.

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.

Marriage is complicated.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures
this makes it only more potent.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

Love is a maze. Once you get in it, you're pretty much trapped. Maybe you manage to claw your way out, but then what have you accomplished?

But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.

...and I wondered what it felt like to live inside such disloyal skin.

He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that a taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Our past is never past & there is no such thing as moving on...

The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.

I do have a sister - I have two sisters.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

The key to life," he told me once, "is to avoid the highs and the lows. It's the peaks and valleys that mess you up.

Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

But in truth, I was different now, burning and anointed.

I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter.

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.