- Nov 07, 2020
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- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
- Nov 07, 2020
I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.
- Nov 07, 2020
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
- Quietly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020