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It's fun to give pleasure to people.
It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.
He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.
The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.
An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.
Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer.
My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.
Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.
We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.
I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.
I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts.
I don't wear shoes that are going to give me any pain. I just cannot do that.
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.
My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world.
Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.
Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.
Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.
I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.
To add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world.
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
I just always try to respond to what I'm most interested in at the moment - that hasn't changed.
Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like.
The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.
Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.
I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.
There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.
It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.
You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.
Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.
No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.
It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt discouraged.
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.
There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?
Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my mid-twenties.
When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.