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I write to feel alone.

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I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

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I feel my writing comes from a desire to... well, it's motivated by many things, but it's inherently a contradiction in that I'm writing for myself, and it's a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect.

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I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

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I feel that Italy's a country that's constantly looking out and constantly following what's happening in other cultural centers. What is being written in America, what is being published in England, what is being published in France. It's a culture that's always wanting to absorb and inform itself of other works, other writers, etc., etc.

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I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian.

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All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

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So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

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It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.

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I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 11th, 1967

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