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Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Arenas Beliefs Betrayal Character Gives Insights Likely Love Marriage Morals Most Our Place Risk Tremendous Well Which While Wonderful

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A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Age Antique Any Base Could Dozens Enough Entire House Kind Live Lives Long Novelist Out Stories Suppose Tell Weave Will

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A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Around Collision Consciousness Floating Four Ideas May Moment Novel Produce Single Threads Three Time Writer

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I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Edit Endlessly Forward Go Good Know Make Revise Until Write Written I Can I Write

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My favourite books series as a young child was the Frank L. Baum 'Wizard of Oz' series. They were beautifully written, oversized fat books with wonderful type and illustrations.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Beautifully Books Child Fat Favourite Frank Illustrations Oz Series Type Were Wizard Wizard Of Oz Wonderful Written Young Young Child

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I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Alive Alone Crave Fact Feel In Fact Love Then Truly Working I Love I Feel

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I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Always Been Charmed Covers Descriptions Early Editor Fact Had Houses In Fact Me Novels Once Out Pointed Prominent Them

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I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Almost Always Beach Bend Bit Bits Bottle Chunk Collecting Fire Glass Green History Hours Inside Lantern Many Medicine Pick Piece Sea Ship Spent The History Of Up Used White Who Wonder

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The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Been History Life My Life Novelist Pull Strong Theme

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WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

~Anita Shreve

Topics: About Almost Any Bravely Certain Comforts Death Entire Even Experience Face Generation Innocence Least Left Life Men Men And Women Novel Romantic Senses Shattered Sometimes Story Travel Very War Women Word

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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