- Nov 07, 2020
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- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering person, and I thought I always would be. Love changed that.
- Friendships
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Non-mothers do, too.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.
- Gave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before it's done that it's going to be done.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we didn't look the same day-to-day, and our self weren't always in our body, would we even be the same? The continuity is in our bodies.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?' I wasn't trying to write about myself so much as a combination of myself and these women I was seeing in our culture.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way. I feel like there's this great fullness to being alone, and writing is a really vivid way and a really magical way of being alone.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020