"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."

Home, Music, Listening, Sons

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"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Home was wherever they were together, and it felt good."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option."

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"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."

Writing

"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."

Family

"I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves."

Identity

"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

God

"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."

Change

"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."

Time

"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."

Thought

"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."

Poetry

"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."

Sense

"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."

Love