If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.

Alexi Zentner

Categorized in : Me Think I Am Wife

I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.

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If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.

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As much as I love my daughters, I wasn't happy with only being a stay-at-home-dad, and my wife encouraged me to try, to really try, at being a writer. More than anything, I didn't want to let her down.

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There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.

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I've said many times that there only two things to write about: love and death. And when you have children, you remember that the world is full of sharp corners and dangerous things, and suddenly you have these small, soft creatures, which you love in almost painful way.

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