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As a reader, I have always enjoyed 'ranty' books, but they are all written by men.

~Claire Messud

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I have always been interested in that relationship between what happens in our head and what happens in the world.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Been Between Happens Head Interested Our Relationship World

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Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Adventure Always Anyone Anywhere Becomes Contact Direct Essential Even Fine Flexibility Flu Get Kids Like Long Mean Pad Paper Parents Pen Seems Someone Starbucks Who Write Writing You I Can

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For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Aim Always Complexity Convey Exhilarating Experience Invaluable Life Rather Some Than Those Thoughts Tiresome Unexpected Us Who Whom Whose Writers

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I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Canadian Enough Everybody Feel Quite Though

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This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.

~Claire Messud

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Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Always Children Everybody Fiction Just Just As Much Lives Living Much Narratives Our Own Sort Stories Take True Way

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If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Aiming Always Being Certain Compelling Done Easier Fit Generally Goals Job Life Like Make Me Out Physically Really See Set Them Then Thinking Thriller Unfit Writing You Your

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I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

~Claire Messud

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I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Find Good Good Idea Hardest Idea Needless Path Say

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