- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020