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Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Self Esteem
Quietly
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I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Warm
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Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.
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Only One Way
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I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Wrinkle
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Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
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Oh
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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
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Complaining
Admit
Laugh
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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
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Virginia
Woolf
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As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
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Peaceful
Weak
Powerful Nation
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To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.
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Heart
Open Your Heart
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I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
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Letters
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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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Sentence
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To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Accepting
Recognizing
Self Esteem
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Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
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Better Writer
Competitive
Ideally
Inspires
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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.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Desire
Smart
Willingness
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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.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Deny
Lying
Autobiographical
Profoundly
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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.
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Work Time School
Interfered
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I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
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Compare
Mysterious
Possessed
Russia
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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.
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Army
Soviet
Capital
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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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Human Nature
Typical
Sees
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Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?
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Childhood
Grief
Remember
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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.
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California
Credible
Debut
Novel
Vision
Somewhere
Helps
Sets
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Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.
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Broke
Real Story
Article
Clark
Followed
Rockefeller
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I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
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Legal
Divorce
Human Heart
Inadequacy
Legal System
Parental
Touched
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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.
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Running
Parenthood
Prepared
Ready
Sweat
Power Men Women
Enter
Eyes
Power Women Men
Few
Few People
Women Power Men
Lodge
Psychic
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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.
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Reputations
Reveal
Slip
Truths
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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
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Endure
Evolve
Stable
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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.
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Crisis
Crucial
Quiet
Poem
Requisite
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I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.
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Perceptive
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I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.
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Army
Occupied
Soviets
Stalin
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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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Recognition
Uncomfortable
Inner
Leads
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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?
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Spoken Word
Why Not
Functional
Interactions
Reserve
Rid
Spoken
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When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.
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Accomplish
Complaining
Recognition
Moan
Woeful
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Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?
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Past
Unhappy
Waiting
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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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Campus
Urban
Life World Me
Center
Folded
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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.
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Identity
Intelligent
Tricks
Behaviors
Designed
Joined
Merely
Occurred
Repertoire
Suspicions
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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.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Agreement
Blood
Consensus
Human Relationships
People Will Human
Begins
Builds
Clark
Duped
Initial
Network
Relationships
Rockefeller
So Many People
Thereafter
Via
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I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.
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Birth
Bus
Comfort
Cried
Ease
Regularity
Right Place
Rooted
Life Family Children
Lore
Union
Rained
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In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Apartment
Assistance
Bricks
Cities
Coal
Epic
Mutual
Notorious
Obedient
Post Office
Smoke
Soviet
Soviet Union
Buildings
Occupy
Post
Union
Radioactive
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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.
Amity Gaige / Novelist
Intention
Please
Unlovable
Good People Will
Authentic
Ironically
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