- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. 'The New Yorker' sent me nice notes, though - penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren't terribly encouraging.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my first baby at twenty-one.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020