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" I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest. "
Tayari Jones
Lose
Places
Start
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" When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. "
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Truth
" I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young. "
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" I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives. "
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" I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year. "
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" I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated. "
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Stand
" I do have a sister - I have two sisters. "
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Two
" When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess. "
Tayari Jones
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" The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. "
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" My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead. "
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City
Hometown
" Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. "
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" I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. "
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