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Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years…
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that…
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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites…
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort…
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent…
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Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it…
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the…
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the…
— Unknown Author
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American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us…
— Dennis Etchison
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Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.…
— Ron Rash
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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
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I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that…
— Jessica Hagedorn
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Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal…
— Carol Anshaw
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Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,…
— Teju Cole
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