- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
- Flooded
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
- Buttered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
- Nov 07, 2020
It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020