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Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

~Mary Gaitskill

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Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

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I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

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I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

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If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

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I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.

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I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this.

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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

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I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

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I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 11th, 1954

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