There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.
I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.
I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information shehe has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that shehe has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts--how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today.
Me as a backup center? Hell no.
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.