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You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

~Stacy Schiff

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Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person.

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When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

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I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

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Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.

~Stacy Schiff

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 26th, 1961

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