The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .
Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.
(n.) Alt. of Memoirs
I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.
Who have you helped today"?
Be good, or good at it.
Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.
Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is p...
How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always lean on during a metaphysical crisis, or a moment of doubt a...
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become fre...
It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.
Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?""Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.
I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.
Tatiana is a ridiculously curvy thing of dreams, with smooth succulent thighs, long strawberry blond cascading beneath a teal bandana, and a nympho sparkle in her eyes that says pick me, lick me, span...
The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.
Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.
Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 volt sexual charisma that beckons me like a fluff girl on scuffed knees.
The features of character are carved out of adversity.
There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has b...
The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings...