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" Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame. "
Susan Isaacs
Fame
Our
Culture
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" Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it. "
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" For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience. "
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" There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first. "
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" As soon as someone is coming from New York, I automatically think I have to get dressed up. "
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" There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That's why it's so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds. "
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" It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add. "
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Youth
Writing
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" There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe. "
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Lose
Universe
Time
" Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her. "
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Creating
World
Story
" As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at it. "
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Life
Long
My Life
" I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way. "
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Way
People
" Could there be a cowgirl in my future? You know, I never know what character is going to come and tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Hey, tell my story.' So maybe the next one will have boots. "
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Me
You
Story
" I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women. "
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Women
People
Adventure
" I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?' "
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You
See
Want
" My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options. "
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She
Way
Friends
" Style is not my long suit, but I'm really fascinated by it. "
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Really
Long
Suit
" It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous. "
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Interesting
Perfect
She
" I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person. "
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Person
Actress
Admiration
" I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews. "
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Wonderful
Terrible
Success
" I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs. "
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Dating
Birthday
Been
" It's no coincidence that I began writing the day my daughter started school. I knew everything I knew before I began to write, but I was raising two children and didn't have the time to get to the typewriter. "
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Time
School
Day
" We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community. "
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Reading
She
Learning
" I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain. "
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Going
Weirdo
Service
" At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone. "
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Beginning
Alone
You
" Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it. "
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Work
Real Estate
Teacher
" I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day. "
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Only
Day
Three
" I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery. "
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Opportunity
You
Growing Up
" I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life. "
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Myself
Someone
Story
" I never failed at anything in fiction. "
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Fiction
Failed
Anything
" With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be. "
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Always
Where
Middle-Class
" Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up. "
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Everyone
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Bubble