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Claire Messud Quotes

American - Novelist | 1966 -

If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

Time Writing Building Library Rich

When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just live it.

Friend Live Best Words Best Friend

I remember laughing so hard as a kid.

Remember Hard Kid Laughing

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

Live Truth Think Facts Reality You

I wish I were a really good photographer.

Good Wish Photographer I Wish Really

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

Women Television News Young Film

This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.

Explore Always Break Something Sense

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

Said Important Lived Somewhere Our

The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'

Friend Character Me Potential Alive

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.

Life Hope Childhood I Am Book Think

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

Writing Reading You Know Out Head

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

People Things Sense Who Read How

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