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I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Am Characters Closest Closest Friends Friends Hugely Human Human Nature Just Many Most Nature Obsessive Onto Particularly Project Scientists Tend Touch Trait Who Writers I Am

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I've never been to a black-tie thing in my life. I didn't even go to my prom.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Been Even Go Life My Life Never Prom Thing

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There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: About Actually Except Interesting Me Nothing Write I Write

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I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

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Topics: Cape Could Day Did Every Every Day Grew Live Right Up Walk Water

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Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Between Conflict Disease Exists Feel Group Health Human Infectious Intersection Make Makes Medicine Out People Policy Public Public Health Real Safer Science Social Social Policy Tendency Those Try Who

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I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: About Abstract Always Artists Certain Certain Way Details Heads Live Musicians Obsessed People Physical Physical World Scientists Set Very Way Who World Write Written I Write

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When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Around Book Choose Follow General Material More New Notes Often Other Primary Randomly Rather Source Specialized Territory Then Works

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In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Another Assistant Body Carrying Eventually Exhausted Finds Gates Hospital Night One Night Outside Over Pony Published Reins Soldier Story Surgeon Working

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All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Alive All My Life Books Felt Imaginative Know Life Me Minds More My Life People Rather Some Some People Teachers Than Triggers Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 16th, 1954

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