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, you're got to pretend you're glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence… — 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
