- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
- Prefer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer a cluttered workspace.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.
- Blames
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020