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"I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home."
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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."
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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"
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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."
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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
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"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
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"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."
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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."
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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."
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"I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies."
Movies
"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
Food
"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
Management
"And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it."
Authenticity
"My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove."
Family
"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"
Experience
"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."
Family
"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
Body
"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
Commercialism
"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years."
Death
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