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I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Been Child Different Different Places Get Go Homesick Know Like Love Many Never People Places Quickly Seem Travel Way

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I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Believe Enough Get Give Going Ideal Keep Keep Going Lost New New World Part Reader Somebody Sound Take Them Then Time Voice Willing World Writing

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I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Always Been Criminal Criminal Law Deep Element Goes Idea Interest Interested Law Prisons Society Touched Tremendously

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I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Anxiety Arranging Ear Fall Hard Having Job Know Love Me Quite Right Right Way Them Thrill Tremendous Way Wonderful Words You I Love

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The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with 'Olive.' I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Always Deliver Enough Fact Feel Few Get High Lot Lucky Matter Olive Reader Readers Really Responsibility Responsible Sense Something Straight Them Truthful Whether Which I Feel I Can

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In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: About Because History Interested Kind Maine Oldest Own Represents State Think Very Way Writing I Think

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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Bodily Earn Hand Just Know Literally Me Physical Thing Think Through Way Write

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My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: About Afternoon Cleaning Different Elderly First First Job Hated Houses Job Town Women

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Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Because Doubt Even Inspiration Knowing Many Mostly Mother She Storyteller True Ways Without Wonderful Writing

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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Actor Audience Being Having Human Human Being Love Means Out Playing Right Sitting Theater I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1956

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