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"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there."
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"Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter."
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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
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"We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family."
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"I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family."
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"Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?"
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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family."
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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."
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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
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"It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister."
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"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
Life
"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there."
Family
"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
Mind
"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
Reading
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
Censorship
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
Time
"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
Story
"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
People
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Time
"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
Books
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