- Nov 07, 2020
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
- Ourselves
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
- Dumping
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- Nov 07, 2020
My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
- Cute
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020