Lore Segal

“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like…

— 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…

— Lore Segal

“I once wrote a suicide story: A woman watches a truck bearing down toward the place on the sidewalk where she stands…

— Lore Segal

I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way…

— 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…

— Lore Segal

My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years…

— Lore Segal

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

— Lore Segal

I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.

— Lore Segal

I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

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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…

— 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…

— Lore Segal

There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go…

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It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the…

— Lore Segal

I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try…

— Lore Segal

I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a…

— Lore Segal

I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I…

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Franz Kafka is a huge influence, more than the Grimms. To allow yourself to get into the coal bucket and fly to…

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Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.

— Lore Segal

As soon as you move through the hospital doors you've removed yourself from real life. From the world we know. It's an…

— Lore Segal