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Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

~Darin Strauss

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You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

~Darin Strauss

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I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.

~Darin Strauss

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The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

~Darin Strauss

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My training and my inclination is to invent.

~Darin Strauss

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If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.

~Darin Strauss

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Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

~Darin Strauss

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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

~Darin Strauss

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My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

~Darin Strauss

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I'm really wary of self-help books.

~Darin Strauss

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1970

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