A.M. Homes Quotes

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• 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,…
• Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
• My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who…
• Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a…
• I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
• It's my policy not to review funerals.
• I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer…
• 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,…
• It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I…
• I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious.…
• I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's…
• If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.
• I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than…
• People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
• Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
• I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
• 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…

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