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" Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna Karenina.' There are only so many masterpieces out there. "

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" Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a career, and went to work in advertising. That I could be paid great money to write was incredibly hard to believe. "

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" Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner. "

" If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it. "

" Baking is a matter of precision and timing, but I just make things up as I go. "

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" Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco? "

" That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance. "

" Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset. "

" Usually, when you see clothes on a model, by some transitive property, that garment is imbued with her beauty. "

" We have all come from a woman in some fashion. "

" There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the refrigerator has ever crossed their mind. "

" That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away. "

" Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was the age for it. "

" When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite - the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn. "

" I think it's a not-uncommon experience for gay boys, young men, and even older men to spend a lot of time in the company of women. "

" Fiction is just lying. "

" With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women. "

" I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control. "

" I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work. "

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" Men's fashion's tendency toward uniformity promises little fun, but at least it offers this: If I wear sweatpants and sneakers, I can pass as the American it's safest to be. "

" When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased. "

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" Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise. "

" Does a bona fide chimichurri have cilantro in it? Who cares? Cooking for your family, unless your family includes Joel Rubouchon, is liberating in that regard. "

" Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law. "

" Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity. "

" Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. "

" Writer's block is a fiction. "

" To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art. "

" History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story. "

" I didn't know, at 22, that everything that happens to you, the good stuff as well as the less-good stuff, accrues and becomes your life. "

" Form ossifies into genre through repetition. "