"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."

Home, Life, Children, Deep

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"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."

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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."

Keren Ann, Israeli Musician

Home, Bed, Paris

"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

Layne Staley, American Musician

Home,

"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire, French Writer

Home, Books, Fire, Property

"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Joy, Kindness, Laughter

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

Cornelia Funke, German Author

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"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."

Layne Staley, American Musician

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"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."

Christopher Fry, English Playwright

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"So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."

Time, People, Play, Tennis

"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."

Home, Life, Children, Deep

"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."

Complexity, Nothing

"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."

Want,

"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."

People, Memory

"In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it."

Work, Day, Needs, Writing, Years

"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."

Time, Work

"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."

Personal, Observation

"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."

Memory,