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> [“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/story-has-a-mind-of-its-own-and-tells-things-sometimes-it-might-have/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

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## More by Lore Segal

> [“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/story-has-a-mind-of-its-own-and-tells-things-sometimes-it-might-have/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/gustave-flaubert-said-emma-bovary-c-est-moi-it-is-not-possible-to/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [“I once wrote a suicide story: A woman watches a truck bearing down toward the place on the sidewalk where she stands waiting to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-once-wrote-a-suicide-story-a-woman-watches-a-truck-bearing-down/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way to read.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-read-on-a-kindle-i-must-be-of-the-opinion-that-the-new-way-to-read/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-very-moved-and-very-excited-and-it-just-seems-to-me-here-are/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/my-idea-in-half-the-kingdom-was-simply-or-not-so-simply-perhaps-that/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-not-going-to-say-it-s-laziness-but-i-m-not-a-grand-creator-of-new/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-don-t-go-to-the-movies-because-they-scare-me-i-don-t-like-anything/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-wrote-her-first-american-and-i-always-say-it-took-me-eighteen-years/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/did-the-nineteenth-century-novelists-create-more-generously-than-we/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-bad-at-thinking-about-society-i-love-to-make-fun-of-very-small/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-always-amused-by-the-way-questions-are-asked-what-did-you-intend/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [There's that wonderful line in Measure for Measure. I forget which of the characters has committed adultery and is going to die. He looks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/there-s-that-wonderful-line-in-measure-for-measure-i-forget-which-of/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-dare-say-you-believe-i-m-going-to-die-i-bet-you-don-t-believe-you/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

> [First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a dictionary comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/first-book-was-handwritten-then-the-printing-press-now-we-ve-got-our/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

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