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Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Could Create Details Difficult Dwell Experience Fiction Life Narrative Needing Novel Part Real Real Life Really Reason Redemption Something Stark Wanted Which Without Write

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I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: About Book Looking Lot Readers Talk Think I Think

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I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Abandoned Been Between Children Coast East East Coast Had Learn Midwest More Neglected Sent Stunned Than Trains

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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Also Brilliant Dynamic Ever Known Most Mother She Women

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For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Around Enough Few Fragments Hats House Humans Interest Leaving Lost Mother Needles Orbit Piled She Started Still Suddenly Sweaters Then Up Wear Were Yarn Years

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When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Activities Another Domestic Enjoy Find Genuinely Many Myself Never New Novel Panic Start Which Will Word Write

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I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Anyone Drawer Find Furniture Garden Knit Lunch Middle Once Rarely Rearrange Serve Something Stays Will

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My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Complicated Fierce Mother Passionate Sometimes Woman

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I don't believe in karma.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: Believe Karma

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Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

~Christina Baker Kline

Topics: About Almost Almost Everything Does Even Everything He Large Small Son Technology Thinking Uses Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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