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I never failed at anything in fiction.
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Failed
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Style is not my long suit, but I'm really fascinated by it.
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Fascinated
Suit
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I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.
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Pages
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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
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Biographies
Complete
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With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.
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Metabolism
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I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person.
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Admiration
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As soon as someone is coming from New York, I automatically think I have to get dressed up.
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New York
Automatically
Dressed
Soon
York
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There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
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Plot
Right Way
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I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.
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Commercial Success
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Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
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Display
Intimacy
Individuals
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There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.
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Track
Universe
Another
Been
Days
Else
Everything Else
Lose
Place
Where
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I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain.
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Grain
Synagogue
Weirdo
Egalitarian
Service
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I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
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Grandparent
Hey
Iphone
Wanna
Avoid
Camera
Pull
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Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.
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Long Island
No Reason
Universality
Island
Vicar
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There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That's why it's so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds.
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Different Worlds
Fascinating
Long Island
Neck
Island
Worlds
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Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
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Bubble
Fantasies
Urge
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It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.
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Add
Apolitical
Freelance
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Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.
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Teacher
Doing Good
Good Work
Passionate
Work Good Doing
Agent
Work Good Teacher
Estate
Real Estate
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At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.
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Isolated
My Generation
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I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.
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Married
Befriend
Camper
Criminal
Inherently
Thinks
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I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs.
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Birthday
Dating
Makeup
Wasps
Yearning
Jewish
Content
Beyond
Genetic
Longer
Noticed
Soon
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I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery.
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Brooklyn
Pointed
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For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.
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Frustrating
Novelist
Performed
Published
Screenplay
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I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women.
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Adventure
Circumstances
Extraordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Reacting
Extraordinary Circumstances
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Could there be a cowgirl in my future? You know, I never know what character is going to come and tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Hey, tell my story.' So maybe the next one will have boots.
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Boots
Hey
Tap
Shoulder
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As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at it.
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Life Long My Life
Coherent
Sentence
Suddenly
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It's no coincidence that I began writing the day my daughter started school. I knew everything I knew before I began to write, but I was raising two children and didn't have the time to get to the typewriter.
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Daughter
Coincidence
Began
Time Day Children
Typewriter
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Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.
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Creating
Make Believe
Adult
Writer
Version
Unlike
Meaning
Structured
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I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.
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Dollars
Laughed
Nonsense
Unhappy
Work Hate People
Bank
Earn
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
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It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.
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Ambiguous
Honorable
Jane
Favorites
In Fact
Protagonist
Remaining
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We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community.
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Conservative
Engagement
Synagogue
Began
Belonged
Extent
Fully
Group
Joined
Merged
Rote
Suddenly
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My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
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Catholic
December
Decorating
Housewife
Lighting
Long Island
Sabbath
Turns
Jewish
Candles
Compromising
Island
Investigator
Options
Positions
Protagonist
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