American - Novelist | August 22, 1962 -
When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
Kate Christensen
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I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
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I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
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I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
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