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> [It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/it-s-a-fantastic-privilege-to-spend-three-or-four-hundred-pages-with/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

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## More by Anne Michaels

> [The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/the-spirit-in-the-body-is-like-wine-in-a-glass-when-it-spills-it/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/like-other-ghosts-she-whispers-not-for-me-to-join-her-but-so-that/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/i-wanted-a-line-in-a-poem-to-be-the-hollow-ney-of-the-dervish/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/reading-a-poem-in-translation-is-like-kissing-a-woman-through-a-veil/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [“I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/i-saved-myself-without-thinking-i-grasped-the-two-syllables-closest/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/when-my-parents-were-liberated-four-years-before-i-was-born-they/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/it-s-a-fantastic-privilege-to-spend-three-or-four-hundred-pages-with/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/i-really-believe-we-read-differently-when-we-know-even-the-most-banal/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/to-share-a-hiding-place-physical-or-psychological-is-as-intimate-as/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/though-the-contradictions-of-war-seem-sudden-and-simultaneous-history/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [“History is the love that enters us through death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/history-is-the-love-that-enters-us-through-death/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/if-love-wants-you-if-you-ve-been-melted-down-to-stars-you-will-love/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/the-shadow-past-is-shaped-by-everything-that-never-happened-invisible/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/the-shadow-past-is-shaped-by-everything-that-never-happened-invisible-2/)

[Anne Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-michaels/)

> [Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/fiction-allows-you-to-embody-certain-ideas-and-give-them-an-emotional/)

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