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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to leave ourselves, to leave our bodies. I would be that kind of psychologist who says, 'You're absolutely right - there are monsters under the bed.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the way I want it to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.
- Haunting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of Hill House' and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd go silent randomly and just kind of write down replies to people's questions in a book.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about realism?' To which my general response is, 'What about it?' However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of my favorite writers, Marilynne Robinson, was to say something similar if asked 'What about the fantastic?'
- Begin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.
- Nov 07, 2020
Home is where your teapots are.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as possible, looking and listening, having conversations with bridges and streets and riverbanks, conversations I tend not to be aware of until a little later, when I find myself returning to those places to say hello again, even if only in memory.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020