“By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written an...” — Jane Green Quote

By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy.

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

I had a mild case of polio as a child. Not enough to cripple me, but it was polio. I still have an atrophy on the right side of my back.