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- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
- Laughter
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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
- Grandmother
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of grandmother am I? I'm a 'three-dessert' grandmother. I'm a 'let's just skip the bath tonight, honey, watch another video' grandmother.
- Love
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Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I notice it now. I love it now. And I am grateful for it now.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that's what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed as a great-grandmother. I miss that part of her.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever' was inspired by a combination of my grandson, my son, and myself - all those times when each of us has decided that we're just not going to get into trouble anymore. But it's so hard to be good all of the time!
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12.
- Dearly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like my own kids, they're not honeys and sweetie pies and little angels. They're kids. Sloppy, dirty, stinky.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.
- One Word
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could never plan your life in a million years.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having a hard time and are ill.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write to me to pass on advice to Alexander. My favorite one of those being, 'The next time you have a bad day, blame your brothers.' I didn't expect this. It's certainly the most successful of my books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'And Two Boys Booed' several years ago, but we really chased around looking for the perfect illustrator, so it took a while.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rebel. That was me when I was younger. What was a rebel from New Jersey? A rebel was moving to the Village, not sleeping with top sheets, not eating a hot breakfast in the morning, not having 20 rolls of toilet paper and 10 boxes of Kleenex.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020