As soon as you move through the hospital doors you've removed yourself from real life. From the world we know. It's an alien world. Just enter those gates and you are in alien territory. — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“I once wrote a suicide story: A woman watches a truck bearing down toward the place on the sidewalk where she stands waiting to… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way to read.… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life.… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters. — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so. — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm bad at thinking about society. I love to make fun of very small aspects. For instance the privacy rules we have in the… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
