"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

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A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

— John Steinbeck