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- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
- People
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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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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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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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