American - Novelist | 1972 -
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
Amity Gaige
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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
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Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.
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In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
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I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
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I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
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I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
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For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
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I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
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