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If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

~Claire Messud

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I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

~Claire Messud

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Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

~Claire Messud

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I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

~Claire Messud

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The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

~Claire Messud

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If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

~Claire Messud

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I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

~Claire Messud

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An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'

~Claire Messud

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As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

~Claire Messud

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For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

~Claire Messud

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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