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"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"Children are angels."
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"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
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"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."
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"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
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"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."
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"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."
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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
Writing
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."
Family
"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Family
"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."
Life
"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."
Work
"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
Life
"Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people."
People
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
Family
"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
Nature
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