There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
I don’t think that talking to anybody can help you – a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don’t know. I just slug through it. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
Never change’ is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other’s yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible! Jane Hamilton Read Quote
I’ve always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation. Jane Hamilton Read Quote
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging. Jane Hamilton Read Quote