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Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.
I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.
The hard thing for me is to say no to people.
Bill supposed that for every child there was a defining age, a fixed reference point in relation to which his parents would always view him; whereas the child's own truest self would always be the present one.
Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.
Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
Sarabeth wondered at the sheer energy it must have taken for her mother to be dissatisfied by so much. Her psyche was like a huge grid of mousetraps, set to spring at the lightest touch. There were traps for Sarabeth's father,traps for Sarabeth. The biggest trap, though, was the grid itself,the trap of being Lorelei.
Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.
You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd.
How Much Do We Owe People We Love?
Matrimony, he began to think, was a cure for an illness he hadn't known he had.
She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win.
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It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them
I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.
