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I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

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The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

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I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.

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I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

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Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

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I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

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It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

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I'm always terrified when I'm writing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 16th, 1955

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