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Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson Books

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Mona Simpson is an American author known for her delicate emotional descriptions and profound character portrayals. Her works often explore themes of family, identity, and memory, with 'Any Place I Call Home' being one of her most famous novels.

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“I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.”

Writing Helping Night Silence Morning Doors Late Sticks Phones Dawn Awake Lunch Vacation

Author:Mona Simpson

“In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.”

Persons Seems Faces Mouths Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Anywhere but Here

Source: Anywhere but Here

“Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.”

Ifs America Father Grew Grew Up

Book:The Lost Father

Source: The Lost Father

“Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.”

Stories Difficult Vision Love Story

Author:Mona Simpson

“Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.”

Long Mother Arms Kings Horse Grandfather Syria Pointing My Grandfather Once Upon A Time Downtown Posh

Author:Mona Simpson

“The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.”

Men Firsts Persons Lasts Mother Names He Man Ice Managers Shops Boss Cream Ice Cream First Person

Author:Mona Simpson

“Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Imagine Identity Portions Wisconsin Double Life

Author:Mona Simpson

“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

Mother Parent Company Teach Speech Victim Income Hospitals Strokes Percentages Therapists Single Parent

Author:Mona Simpson

“The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.”

Men Stills Ability Generations Complicated Enjoyed Fatherhood Transparency

Author:Mona Simpson

“Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.”

Writing Stories White Rooms Clean Shirts Ties Ritual Desks Jackets Basements Boiler White Shirts Boiler Room

Author:Mona Simpson

“He was a man too busy to flush toilets.”

Men Inspirational Motivational Entrepreneur Busy Businessman Toilets Too Busy

Book:A Regular Guy

Source: A Regular Guy

“I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.”

People Ends Enough Hate Memories Powerful Worst Prove Fake Best Memories

Author:Mona Simpson

“We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”

Ends Stories Dies Middle

Author:Mona Simpson

“We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.”

Knows World Whole Forever Chunks

Book:Casebook: A novel

Source: Casebook: A novel

“So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after”

Matter Hard Forever Crucial Ever After

Book:My Hollywood

Source: My Hollywood

“Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.”

Ifs Thinking Way Different Sometimes Stage Tricks Different Ways Curtains

Author:Mona Simpson

“Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.”

People Way Said Parent Drug Ruined

Author:Mona Simpson

“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”

Firsts Looks Art Seems Beautiful Fashion Ugly

Author:Mona Simpson

“Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.”

Way Giving Book Reading Essentials Give Me Everyday Mysterious Vacation Book Reading Nourishment

Author:Mona Simpson

“Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.”

Men Whole Would Be Father Waiting Brother Mets Feminist Decades Whole Life My Brother

Author:Mona Simpson

About the Author

Born: June 14, 1957
Known for: Author
Quotes: 20

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