- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Geoffrey
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020