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" Biblical names are hot again. "
Anita Diament
Names
Again
Hot
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" I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. "
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Difficult
" I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. "
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Reading
Rejection
What You Love
" One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. "
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" My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. "
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Jewish
Adult
" The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches. "
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More
College
Church
" As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. "
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Library
Research
Year
" November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. "
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Country
" Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. "
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Day
End
" My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. "
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Wedding
Before
Husband
" I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. "
Anita Diament
Track
Community
Writing
" I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. "
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Mary
Never
Wanted
" The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. "
Anita Diament
Religion
Heart
Dining
" My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. "
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New
Denver
Early
" Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. "
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Smart
Love
History
" Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters. "
Anita Diament
Bible
Relationship
Tradition
" The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. "
Anita Diament
Person
Room
Bible
" Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day. "
Anita Diament
Hope
Day
Writing
" Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. "
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Practice
Jewish
Community
" There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. "
Anita Diament
About
Good
Almost
" I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. "
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Music
Many
Love
" I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. "
Anita Diament
Classic
Over
Story