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All Quotes by author - Dara Horn
" Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past. "
Past
Present
Understanding
" Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world. "
You
Know
Legacy
" I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story. "
More
I Am
Story
" I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. "
Career
You
Know
" I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true. "
Media
My Life
Social Media
" I think all parents have a double life. "
I Think
Think
Parents
" I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time. "
Time
Faith
Work
" Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found. "
Searching
Past
Memory
" My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies. "
Theory
Had
Parents
" Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction. "
Relationships
Books
See
" The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it. "
Children
Challenges
Problems
" The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea. "
Through
Way
Suspense
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