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" I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. "
Alice Sebold
Calling
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Work
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" I wanted to be a novelist for so long. "
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" I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality. "
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" To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things. "
Alice Sebold
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Me
You
" I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs. "
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" It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control. "
Alice Sebold
Control
You
Talk
" Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done. "
Alice Sebold
Words
Process
I Am
" In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap. "
Alice Sebold
Anything
Spiritual
Thought
" I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. "
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Daily
Think
People
" We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent. "
Alice Sebold
Parent
Relationship
Work
" The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. "
Alice Sebold
Relationship
Unique
Experience
" I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet. "
Alice Sebold
Through
Free
Comedy
" I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew. "
Alice Sebold
Church
Comics
Reading
" I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M. "
Alice Sebold
Morning
Wake Up
Night
" I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. "
Alice Sebold
Personality
You
Think
" I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them. "
Alice Sebold
Perspective
Understanding
Think
" I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. "
Alice Sebold
Go
Back
Discipline
" I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. "
Alice Sebold
You
Ignorance
Think
" I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't. "
Alice Sebold
Life
People
Think
" I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously. "
Alice Sebold
Seriously
Listening
Never
" For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again. "
Alice Sebold
Growing Up
Evil
Think
" I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. "
Alice Sebold
Myself
Lose
Gardening