- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
- Fundamental Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continued to protect him with my silence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
- Please
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020