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I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Autobiographical Deny Lying Mistake Novels Profoundly Really Then Think True Writers I Think

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I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Birth Born Bus Came Children Comfort Cried Days Earth Ease Even Every Family Felt Few Life Like Lore Many Never Parents Place Regularity Right Right Place Rooted Says School Took Union Were I Was Born

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Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Like Quietly Self-Esteem Truth

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Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Behaviors Designed Dog Each Identity Intelligent Joined Keep Me Merely Occurred Other Paranoid Parents Repertoire Set Several Small Tricks Which Whole Worst

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Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Enter Eyes Few Few People Lodge Men Only Own Parenthood People Power Prepared Psychic Ready Running Sweat Women You Your

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Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Both California Credible Debut Era Helps Her Make More Novel Sets Somewhere Vision

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There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Got More Much School Than Time Times Work Would Write Writing

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Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Anyone One Way Only Only One Way Tell Way Write You

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As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Could Nation Peaceful People Powerful Separate Weak

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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Admit Complaining Laugh Make Only People Use

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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