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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

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People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

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Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: May 25th, 1949

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