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- Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
- Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
- Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
- When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
- In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled…
- I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
- My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of…
- Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God…
- For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
- In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could…
- ...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of…
- It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell…
- He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million…
- Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
- You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching…
- How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
- Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
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