- Cracks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a terrible memory.
- Nov 07, 2020
Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
- Free Verse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
- Nov 07, 2020