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There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.

~Anthony Marra

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I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

~Anthony Marra

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Wars break things; they break stories.

~Anthony Marra

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Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

~Anthony Marra

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I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.

~Anthony Marra

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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

~Anthony Marra

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I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

~Anthony Marra

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When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Act Behind Came Car Collision Crash Empathy Family Help Hiding Indifference Language Last Line Read Refusal Spared Statement Story Warn While I Came

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I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.

~Anthony Marra

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For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

~Anthony Marra

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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