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For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Between Creation Dialogue Discover Discovery Easy Familiar Leading Made Makes Material Materials More New New Material New Things New Way Painter Potter Sculptor See Sometimes Them Things Use Way

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The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Air Basically Cold Complete Cure Day Discovered Five Food Fresh Late Lots Meals Much People Rest Sleep Some Some People Stillness Talking Tuberculosis Until Very 1940S

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I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Does Even Grow Grow Up Landscape Mark Think Understand Up Ways You I Think

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My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Did Divorced Family Father Household Housewife How Largely Little Mother Pleasure Read She Started Until Us Very Were

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I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Act Always Battle Book Constant Down Father Find Go He Less Like Lot Me More More Or Less Mother Normal Normal Person Outside Passionately Person Place Put Read Reading Saw Searching Tell Time Very Whenever Where Would Young

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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Actually Afterwards Although Class Did English English Teacher Fabulous Go Her High High School Horrible Junior Junior High Just Might Out School Skip Someday Something Sophomore Sophomore Year Started Student Teacher Then Think Would Writing Year

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Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Been Dear Dear Friend Drafts Friend Good Good Writer Great Her Hers Intense Know Lucky Read Reader Reads Really Relationship She Teacher Well Working Write Writer I Write

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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Actually Awful Biology Darwin Degree Did Doing Gift Go Interested Kind Lady Might Myself Off Others Out Practice Really Science Scientist Some Someplace Stories Think Turned Undergraduate Very Wanted Who

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The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Century Data Everywhere Exciting First Freshness Gathering Going Growing History Huge Interested Living Mid Natural Natural History Out Particularly People Pursuit Sense Thing Trying Understand Very Were

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I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Fiction Fiction Writers First Happens Hard Hard Way Just Learn Most Naturally Novel Recommend Short Short Stories Some Start Started Stories Students Think Us Way Write Writers Writing I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 16th, 1954

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