“ Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death. ”
I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
~ Anne Tyler
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.