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" All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath. "
Real
Last
Day
" A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West. "
Flexibility
Spirit
River
" As a species, we would not have survived without humor. "
Without
Survived
Species
" Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening. "
Food
Remember
Wine
" I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself. "
Me
Impossible
Writing
" I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it. "
Through
Help
Know
" I experienced unrequited love early. "
Unrequited
Love
Unrequited Love
" I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons. "
Ballet
Up
Lessons
" I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write. "
Up
Grow Up
Just
" I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband. "
Glad
Husband
Years
" I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin. "
Own
Me
My Own
" In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them. "
School
Them
Suburbs
" In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging. "
World
Strength
Problem
" I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew. "
Love
Interesting
Men
" I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes. "
Believe
Want
Think
" I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation. "
Situation
Always
Broken
" People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work. "
Work
Artists
Want
" There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss. "
Life
Loss
You
" We didn't have a TV until I was 12. "
TV
Until
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