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"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."
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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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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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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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"Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better."
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"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"
Thought
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
Family
"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."
Bible
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."
Burden
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
Life
"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."
Power
"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."
Fear
"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."
Success
"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes."
Family
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