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I think all parents have a double life.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Double
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Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Kindness
Deeds
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Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Agree
Fellows
Love You
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My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Sibling
Spies
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The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Plot
Suspense
Expressing
Important Part
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I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Social Media
Life My Life True
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Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.
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Sibling
Adult
Books
Explored
Figure
Relationships
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Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.
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Impact
Legacy
May
Tombstone
Person
Write
Every
Something
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I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.
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Disappointment
Faith Work Hope
Explore
Suppose
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I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.
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Avoiding
Plot
Symbols
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Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Bible
Hebrew
Remember
Understanding
Dozens
Historically
Jews
Lens
Present
Obeyed
Recording
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Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Book
Mean
Thinking
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Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.
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Elusive
Past Events
Temperament
Naturally
Article
Believing
Searching
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The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Dealt
Each One
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The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Running
Bridges
Iron
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Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.
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Children
Memories
Past
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I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.
Dara Horn / Novelist
Aspect
Forgotten
Garbage
Hebrew
Saved
Scholar
Shelves
Yiddish
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And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think.
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Mother
People
Thinking
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