English - Author | 1969 -
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
Alexandra Fuller
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Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.
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Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.
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Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have.
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The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.
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That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
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I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.
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There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!
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I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months.
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You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.
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I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way.
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For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.
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