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" I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person. "

" Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?' I wasn't trying to write about myself so much as a combination of myself and these women I was seeing in our culture. "

" Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this. "

" Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late '70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in 1950s-style domestic interiors. "

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" Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. "

" The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait. "

" I just always try to respond to what I'm most interested in at the moment - that hasn't changed. "

" Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10. "

" I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people can misunderstand or misinterpret things, if not maliciously, then without a lot of sensitivity. "

" To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing, but also something that seeps out into their life and thoughts. "

" I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology. "

" Some of my favorite experiences of art are when I am there but my attention has wandered. I think stimulation is overrated, and persistent stimulation is exhausting. You sometimes have to be banal, tedious: make the rhythm go soft and slow, give the mind a rest. "

" To add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world. "

" There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not. "

" I don't wear shoes that are going to give me any pain. I just cannot do that. "

" Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape. "

" Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer. "

" I don't really have a schedule; I just get up in the morning. I work at home. I don't feel that my work is a separate thing from living - I get ideas about what I want to write about from the real things that I'm worrying about as I live. "

" Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely read Finn abroad. She began her life as an artist early - she had her first drawing published at fifteen. "

" In my experience, women who are taken seriously take themselves seriously. It's not what you wear. "

" Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others. "

" Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows. "

" Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material. "

" Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. "

" I remember very vividly a little plaid dress on which my father sewed all these hanging beads, little horses and stuff. It was my favourite thing ever. I had it when I was four, and I kept it until I was 12, when I gave it to the little neighbour girl. For years, I regretted giving it to her, even though I had no use for it. "

" People don't know who I am from my clothes, and they don't need to. "

" Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because it's not a complete work of art. "

" I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book down to take a rest. You can't just be lighting firecrackers all the time. "

" A daughter is more difficult than a rose. "

" My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world. "