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" I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them. "

Laura van den Berg

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" I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality. "

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" Like many American readers, I was first introduced to Magda Szabo's work when New York Review Books reissued the Hungarian master's profound and haunting novel 'The Door.' "

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" Publishing at a young age is not really an indicator of talent. "

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" Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories. "

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" Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent. "

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" In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina. "

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" I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.' "

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" There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self. "

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" To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. "

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" In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature. "

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" In 'The Third Hotel,' my narrator, Claire, is wrestling with this sense of perpetual unfinishedness. She's trying to make sense of her husband's death, how someone's life can just stop and not continue, and of the lack of resolution in her own inner life. "

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" Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me. "

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" I do not work well when I am in living in a cyclone of panic. I reject actively seeking out destabilization and suffering as a creative model. "

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" It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open to useful influence. I'm praying for it. "

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" I lived in Florida until I was 22. "

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" Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both freedom and danger. "

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" For three years, I lived in a miniscule apartment on Beacon Street, less than a mile from the Boston Marathon explosions. "

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" I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still be a comfort in the familiar recognition of a cycle repeating itself. "

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" If we can think of a place, the physicality of a place, as a kind of 'material,' I would say the landscape of Florida in particular was especially important while writing 'Isle.' "

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" I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world. "

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" The moment when my husband and I clasped hands and turned from our officiant, newly wed, was the most light-filled of my life. "

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" If I leave the fictional world for too long, it's a bit like stepping through a portal, entering another reality, and then not knowing how to get back to where you were before. "

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" I am temperamentally drawn to work that shoves the strange and normal against one another, it's true, although I don't see the 'strange' and the 'normal' as being two separate categories of experience; for me, they are intertwined, hard to separate. "

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" Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions. "

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" When I was in grad school, my husband and I used to house sit for a couple in Harvard Square, so we have these amazing memories of great Cambridge summers. "

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