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Andrea Barrett Quotes

American - Novelist | November 16, 1954 -

I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

Live Water Walk Day Every Day Right

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

Think Grow Landscape You Understand

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Live People World Details Musicians

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.

Book Choose New More Follow Source

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.

Night Story Body Outside Hospital

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

Life People Me My Life Alive Know

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

New Things Easy Discovery Sometimes

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