- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
- Meat
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
- Dancing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
- Coldness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020