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Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Emotions High Stuff Supposed Want Women

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If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Ask Cases Child Free Girl Grows Less Many Much Older Possible Sense She Up Wants Will You

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Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Always Children Everybody Fiction Just Just As Much Lives Living Much Narratives Our Own Sort Stories Take True Way

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If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Aiming Always Being Certain Compelling Done Easier Fit Generally Goals Job Life Like Make Me Out Physically Really See Set Them Then Thinking Thriller Unfit Writing You Your

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The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Anybody Child Hurt Okay Saw See Way World Wrong

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I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Attainable Been Easy Even Felt Never Practical Project Pursue Realistic Seems Very Why

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I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Find Good Good Idea Hardest Idea Needless Path Say

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If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Determine Done Entirely How Like People Response Separate Something Things Those Two Work World Write You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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