“You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.”
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I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.