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If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Alone Check Everyday Everyday Life Family Fantasy Five Life Live Lot More More And More Part Reality Roommates Some Sort You Your

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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Accurately Art Better Experience Human Human Experience Illuminate More Particular Work

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The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Allowed Another Award Baby Children Emperor Exist Had Me No Time Pregnant Received Teaching Time Without Would Writer Writing

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Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Caused Confidence Course Demands Distraction External Factors Got Many Obstruction Perfectionism Point Pressures Push Some Sunk Through Write You

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Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Been Central Dance Displacement Following Goes Insecurity Learning Like Me Place Steps Type Way You

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I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Had Lines Long Memory Play School Span

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I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Could Discovery Distressing Exhilarating Fiction High High School Immediate Known Like Moment Notes Particular Particular Way Read Say School Senior Senior Year Things Underground Unsettling Until Up Urgent Way Year

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At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Anything Fight Generation My Generation Ready Really University Were

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Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Actually Around Diversion Life Living Pointless Rushing Your

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Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Against Down Fragments Like Ocean Other Our Outlast Paper Ruins Scraps Side Things Up Us Washing Words Write Writing Tsunami

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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