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"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"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."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."

"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."

"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."

"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."

"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"

"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."

"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."

"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."
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