Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened.… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
What draws me to family... if I were a psychiatrist, I'd say an enormous amount of unresolved personal material. If I were an anthropologist, I'd say families are at the root of social structures - they shape our identity, our… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years,… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“You can’t collect everything,” Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. “Life is not a hobby.” — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“I love my foot. If I had to send a part of myself to represent myself in some other country, or in some other… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're totally depressed,… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in Cincinnati.” — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong. — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
