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" Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world. "

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" I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.' "

" I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada. "

" If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. "

" I'm a big believer in the complex realities of young people's lives. "

" We read to find life, in all its possibilities. "

" Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life. "

" There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do. "

" We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it. "

" I remember laughing so hard as a kid. "

" Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch. "

" If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me. "

" In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them. "

" We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. "

" In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety. "

" I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe. "

" I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human. "

" We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story. "

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

" I was someone who believed that every day should be different from the last. "

" When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy. "

" I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition. "

" As a kid, I used to tell all these stories. I remember meeting a childhood friend, and we were talking. We remembered that I had made up this story about going to Mars. And she looked at me and said, 'I didn't sleep for a week after that!' "

" At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for. "

" If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it. "

" I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way. "

" When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role. "

" The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. "

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" Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history. "