- 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
A daughter is more difficult than a rose.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing, but also something that seeps out into their life and thoughts.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have to stretch yourself to absorb it.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I think that I felt like I could only live one way, and I had to figure out which of those one ways it was going to be. I have no anxiety about making the wrong decision.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raffi doesn't have any grand theories about why his music has been so successful, but he credits a group called the Babysitters as early inspiration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether, and my job is to find what that book is through my editing.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm writing about and my whole self - when I began the book - become entwined. It's soon hard to tell them apart. The voice I'm trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story - the supposed life cycle.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020