Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.