- Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
- Happy Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing's messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020