He Used To Say We All Had

Updike And Bellow And Roth Were My Three Favorite Writers When I Was Young And Throughout My Life.

You Throw A Person In The River And Then Make A Spectacle Of Jumping In To Save Them.

You Can't Be A Good Person When You're Writing And A Bad Person To Your Husband Or A Bad Friend.

That's One Of The Many Things About Having The Bookstore That I Adore. I Can Walk Into The Store And Say To Somebody, "i'm Glad You're Reading This Book" Or "i'm Glad You're Getting This Book" Or "don't Get That Book. I Read That Book And Hated That Book. Let's Get You This Book Instead."

Hope Is A Horrible Thing, You Know. I Don't Know Who Decided To Package Hope As A Virtue Because It's Not. It's A Plague. Hope Is Like Walking Around With A Fishhook In Your Mouth And Somebody Just Keeps Pulling It And Pulling It.