Writer Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

8 Writer quotes by Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman’s eight statements on writing blend personal insight with cultural observation. This short set offers a concise glimpse into her method of weaving intellect and emotion.

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Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint…

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With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time…

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I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.…

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As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never…

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The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

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Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear…

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“work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I…

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When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different,…

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The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones…

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I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came…

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Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

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If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things…

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I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their…

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Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable.…

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It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your…

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“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are,…

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I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from…

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