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There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: About Certain Democracy Enough Kind Literature Live Maybe People Should Striving Tenderness Thing Unusual Voices Who Written

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I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?

~Anne Michaels

Topics: About Aspects Domestic Just Kinds Reality Talk Them Think Why I Think

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Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Always Another Another Way Bend Brutal Certain Certain Things Closer Describing Even Getting Interested Language Makes Moment Most Necessarily Painful Reader Scene Things Truthful Way Which

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I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Being Far Keep Myself Naive Out Pure Rather Reading Realise Thing I Can

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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Author Banal Believe Differently Even Facts Know Life Most Read Really

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I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Come Concern Could Her Idea Interested Matter Oh Our Ours Parents Profound Province Questions Reader Resistance Say Should Story Us Well Where Who

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I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Child Close Down Find Impression Keep Made Me Moments Remember Somehow Started Things Very Wanting Way Write Young Young Child

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It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: About Appeals Certain Complicated Difficult Fantastic Form Four Go Hundred Me Much Novel One Thing Pages Painful Privilege Questions Reader Spend Thing Three Time Very You

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I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

~Anne Michaels

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Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Allow Certain Characters Close Embody Emotional Fiction Get Give Idea Ideas Reality Them You

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Poet

Born: April 15th, 1958

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