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For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some autonomy in the world. You had some freedom, and you felt you had unlimited ambition. It's when you thought, 'I'm going to write plays. I'm going to be president. I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that.' And then it all falls apart.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Ages Ambition Any Apart Autonomy Because Before Between Falls Felt Freedom Going Great Had Masks Me Plays President Some Then Thought Unlimited Were Wore World Write You

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For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Experience Formative Land Me Particular Reading Waste Younger

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If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Alive Behind Building Hospital Human Leave Leaves Library Like Meant Particular Planet Rich Sense Someone Tells Time Us Visceral Wing Writing You

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A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Another Boundaries Emotion Enter Experience How Know Language Lets Literally Music Our Outside Own Painting Person Piece Saw Somebody Space Special Step Temporarily Things Time Time And Space Us Way Wealth Whole World Writing

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When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just live it.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Almost Articulate Best Best Friend Friend Garden Just Kid Like Live Need Puppies Someone Something Stuff Words You Your

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I remember laughing so hard as a kid.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Hard Kid Laughing Remember I Remember

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We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Blanks Course Fact Facts Fictional Fill Grown-Ups In Fact Kids Know Live Make Make Up Place Reality Sort Stories Take Tell Then Think Truth Up You

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The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Appalling Fictional Film Girl Narratives News Provide Television Women Women Are Young Young Women

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This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Another Break Explore Like Much Our Sense Something Surface Which Who

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What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

~Claire Messud

Topics: Between Experience Objective Some Truth Truth Is You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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