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Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.

~Claire Messud

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As a kid, I used to tell all these stories. I remember meeting a childhood friend, and we were talking. We remembered that I had made up this story about going to Mars. And she looked at me and said, 'I didn't sleep for a week after that!'

~Claire Messud

Topics: About After Childhood Friend Going Had Kid Looked Made Mars Me Meeting Remember Remembered Said She Sleep Stories Story Talking Tell Up Used Week Were I Remember

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There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

~Claire Messud

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As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Able Against Age Any Approaches Back Certain Circumstances Come Course Even Fantasies Inevitably Intention Limitations May Middle Middle Age Our Planned Realization Realized Set Ship Thwarted Up Us Will

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I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Myself Rather Remembered Than Wish Work

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I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Also Clarity Convey Experience How Like Lot Need Reader Way Will World Would Write

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I was someone who believed that every day should be different from the last.

~Claire Messud

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I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.

~Claire Messud

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I wish I were a really good photographer.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Good Photographer Really Were Wish I Wish

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I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

~Claire Messud

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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