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For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Aim Always Complexity Convey Exhilarating Experience Invaluable Life Rather Some Than Those Thoughts Tiresome Unexpected Us Who Whom Whose Writers

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In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Example For Example Gay Gay Marriage Live Lived Logical Many Marriage People Seems Who World

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The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Anxiety Fall Feeling Field Had Idea Infinite Like Lying Me Might Mostly Night People Several Sky Staring Times Up Void Youth

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In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Contained Could Create Entirety Experience Making Making Up Reading Shared Stories Up Which World

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I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Actually Criticism Did Dorothy Faulkner Film Film Criticism Novelist Produced Short Two Work

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I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Being Belong Easier Else Father Fixed Had Home Idea Inherited Liked Me Much Never Sense Sister Somewhere Somewhere Else Than Think Where

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I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.

~Claire Messud

Topics: American British Either Feel Like Means More Sometimes Subjective Than Things Think Those Understanding Writer I Think I Feel I Feel Like

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I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

~Claire Messud

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I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Canadian Enough Everybody Feel Quite Though

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At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

~Claire Messud

Topics: Alice Canadian Day End End Of The Day Margaret Michael More Neil Sensibility Than Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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