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I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Dirt Everybody Grew Grumpy Maine Me Much Old Pretty Related Road Up Were

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I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: About Am Anxiety Around Boring Comfortable Conversations Deep Having Here Like Literary Lot New New York People Problems Publishing Share Situations Success Tension Think Work York I Think I Am

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The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Anyone Around Fiction Look Make Makes Nice People Purpose Seem Think You

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As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Because Complexity Contained Courtroom Doctor Drama Hospital Like Novelist Prefer Shows Those Though Tv Wanted Watch

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I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Able Accident Being Comfort Daily Favourite Life Like Love Paper Read Routines Subway Things Word I Love

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I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: About Am Behind Course Deeply Feels Fiction Get Illusion Interested Know Like Love Much Myself Operate Other People Really Revealing Sort Work Write Writing I Am I Love I Write

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In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Actually Been Betrayal England Expected Kind Left Maine Marry New New England New York Refuge Seen Somebody Stay Think Well Which York You I Think

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I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Back Because Been Come Drawn England Generations Landscape Light Many Miss New New England Personality Revealed Roots Type Where Writing

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I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: About Anybody Behavior Care Deeply Matter Some Think Way Who Write I Write

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Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Although Amount Come Day Great Just Just Kind Kind Lucky Oh Ordinary Out Paragraph Rewrite Rewriting Sections Sometimes Tremendous Tremendous Amount Will Work You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1956

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