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I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Autobiographical Did English Experienced Exploring Fiction Freshman Harvard Hungary Interested Issues Most Nonfiction Personally Phenomena Problems Relationships Sense Summer Teach Whether Writer

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Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Again Differently Forgot Lost Made Me Novel Remembered Search Then Think Time

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I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Actually Also Book Had Life-Changing Magic Novel Really Self-Help Wish Written

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I don't believe in being ashamed about not having read things.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Ashamed Being Believe Having Read Things

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No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Bad Even No Time Something Spend Time Wasted Will Write Writing You

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Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Amount Bad Certain Everyone Get Out System Writing

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It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Bad Bad Stuff Censor Demoralized Get Important Stuff Upset Write You Yourself

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The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Changed College Criticism Dreams Freud Interpretation Most Opinion Read Text Which

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The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Account Contains Criticism Critique Don Quixote Even Explicit Expression Feels First Get Life Modern Morning Negative Novel Product Quite Quixote Real Real Life Romance Spain Up Way You

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Much as there are things about our own life stories that we can learn only from the systematic study of our dreams, there are things about the human condition that we can learn only from a systematic study of literature.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Condition Dreams Human Human Condition Learn Life Literature Much Only Our Our Dreams Own Stories Study Systematic Things

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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