In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them. Jane Hamilton More Quotes by Jane Hamilton More Quotes From Jane Hamilton I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room. Jane Hamilton strong blood moving It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us. Jane Hamilton weaving forgiving strong 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 evening wine food remember All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath. Jane Hamilton will day real hope People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work. Jane Hamilton ground want work people We didn't have a TV until I was 12. Jane Hamilton until tv 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 think know you talking 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 myself me impossible way 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 river something spirit people I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew. Jane Hamilton youth love men people I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write. Jane Hamilton grow-up grow just you 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 skin someone me my-own I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation. Jane Hamilton go always situation broken '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 think change time school 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 good you change life As a species, we would not have survived without humor. Jane Hamilton would without species humor In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging. Jane Hamilton belonging strength problem world I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons. Jane Hamilton studying up lessons dance I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes. Jane Hamilton think want sometimes believe I experienced unrequited love early. Jane Hamilton early unrequited unrequited-love love
