top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
Standard
Customized
More
"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A young man married is a man that's marred."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
Author Name
Personal Development
"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."
Family
"I never listen to music when I write."
Music
"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."
Family
"And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."
Writing
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
Life
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
Marriage
"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."
Books
"I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father."
Family
"My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day."
Writing
"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."
People
bottom of page