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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Important Literally Literary Lived Lives Our Said Somewhere

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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Find Life Possibilities Read

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The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'

~Claire Messud

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Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Charge Establish Girl History Order Particular Shared Sort Storytelling Use Who

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When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Am Book Childhood Down Estate Exactly Exactly What First Give Gives His Hope Life Like Now Out Published Russian Sit Something Still Teaching Think Tolstoy Transmit Transparent Write You I Think I Am

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If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Head Know Out Reading Took Who Would Writing You

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The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

~Claire Messud

Topics: How Make People Read Sense Things Who

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There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

~Claire Messud

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I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Canada Different Different Person French New New York Person York

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Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Another Being Book Cover Every Had Hours Kids Last Life Making Middle More Night People Place Read Remember Say Sometimes Spent Taking Temperatures Think Up Who I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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