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I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

~Geraldine Brooks

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Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: After Again Another Down Goes Like One Word Push Put Sometimes Start Stop Straight Trade True Up Wall Word Writing You Your

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You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Capacity Create Does Driving Driving Force Empathy Force Fundamental Hatred Ignore Interested Love Past Religion Societies Us Very Violence Write You

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I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Acquired Act Africa Balkans Correspondent Desk East Equipment Foreign Lack Middle Middle East Most Must News Perhaps Reporter Seven Story Tell Them Time Useful Write Writing Years Your

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I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and chain myself to the desk a little before 9 A.M., and try not to be distracted until I hear my son plunge through the front door at about 3 P.M.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Another Before Chain Desk Distracted Dogs Door Forty Front Front Door Go Go Home Hear Him Home Little Minutes Myself Plunge School Son Them Then Through Try Until Walk While Write I Write

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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Always Crap Page Something Sometimes Sure Therefore Words Work Write I Can I Write

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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

~Geraldine Brooks

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The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.

~Geraldine Brooks

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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Always Because Contemporary Drawn Fiction Find Former Journalist Just Love Me My Own Narratives Nonfiction Own Perhaps Present Press Read Reality Think Time Too While Writing I Think I Love

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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Bread Daily Dew Grass Jewish Moon Mostly New Prayers Things Wine

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14th, 1955

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