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Amity Gaige Quotes

American - Novelist | 1972 -

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

Mistake Think Lying True I Think

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Dog Identity Parents Me Small Worst

Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.

Women Power Eyes Men People You

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

Vision More California Somewhere Her

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Work Time School Writing More Write

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

You Way Write Tell Only Anyone

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

People Powerful Peaceful Weak Nation

Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

People Laugh Admit Complaining Only

It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

Happiness Quiet Dangerous Crisis See

If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?

Love Yourself Problems You Why Your

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Family Mother City Army Born She

I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.

Confidence America Find Mysterious

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