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When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience.

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I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

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When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.

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I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

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In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

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If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

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I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

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Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 28th, 1959

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