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A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Author Beyond Both Daily Daily Life Empathy Enlargement Experience Imagination Intense Life Limits Most Narrow Novel Reader Sense

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I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Been Class College Death Ever Great Like Literature Love Morality Novel Politics Questions Russian Since Smitten Tackle Tolstoy Took Writers

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When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Afford Big Block Format Now Now And Then Paragraphs Redundant Requires Sentence Then Twitter Writing You

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Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Alone Anyone Before Letting Long Read Spend While Working Written

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After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Abbey After Both Brevity Chechnya Downton Abbey Drawn Few Inner Inner Life Last Last Few Years Life Novel Series Serious Set Spending Tweets Twitter Working Wrote Years Mr

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At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Between Government Journalism Line Manhattan Often Propaganda Tv

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While looking up news from the North Caucasus on Twitter, I was linked to the sanguinely titled 'Seven Wonders of Chechnya Tour' on the website of Chechnya Travel, the postwar republic's first tourism outfit, founded in 2012.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Chechnya First Founded Linked Looking News North Outfit Postwar Republic Seven Tour Tourism Travel Twitter Up Website While Wonders

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Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: American Around Best Broadcast Business Chechnya Come Despite Efforts Enough Had Made Meet Notable People Quickly Republic See Sites Throughout Tourist Town Way Word Work

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No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Admiration Biographies Deal Favor Former Great Great Deal Himself Institution Office Oval Oval Office Presidents Sitting Without

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The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Across Capture Cracks Early Fall Fiction History Idea Informed Phenomena Stories Through Two Vital Wars Which 1990S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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