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- Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.
- After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine…
- Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather…
- For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who…
- I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical…
- I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just…
- I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in…
- I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them.…
- We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we…
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