I’m really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
I needed my own territory, and I didn’t know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else’s skin. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
I don’t mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I’d always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We’re of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there’s more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
