I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt. — 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
