I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way to read. It's a new way. Those of us who like the smell of books get upset but… — 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 a different hair color and a new body ... I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. But I can't… — Lore Segal Copy Share
“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. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once… — Lore Segal Copy Share
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 years I stopped and wrote Lucinella. I got stuck; it was too hard to write. Lucinella felt like a lark. I wanted to write about the literary circle because it amused me, and I allowed myself… — Lore Segal Copy Share
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 new and different characters, or is it the same character who is a stand-in for the writer? And it's interesting enough, but it's a weakness I think. We are much more self-revealing and less able to… — Lore Segal Copy Share
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 States. Where you sign this thing that you've never read, and if you ever read it you discover there's no privacy whatsoever. But I don't know how to think sociologically, to tell you the truth. My… — Lore Segal Copy Share
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
