Anita Diament

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• Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Dies
• There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute Add
• I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters.… Deeply
• I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. Classical
• As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me… Access
• It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing. Been
• I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. Grew
• My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. Childhood
• I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already… Advertised
• I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. Difficult
• Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. Community
• The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. Bible
• Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the… Bible
• Biblical names are hot again. Bible
• The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or… Book
• There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. Adolescent
• The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff. Cream
• One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and… Bone
• Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. Accent
• Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be… Day
• I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy. Childhood
• When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out. Coming
• The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. Cathedral
• My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. Converted
• Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the… Always Interconnection

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