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Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout
American Author
Born: Jan 6, 1956
Love Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it. Elizabeth Strout
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Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it. Elizabeth Strout
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being. Elizabeth Strout
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Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another. Elizabeth Strout
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I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality. Elizabeth Strout
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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it. Elizabeth Strout
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Bullies are just frightened people. Elizabeth Strout
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My parents were very, very, very strict. Elizabeth Strout
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I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people. Elizabeth Strout
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I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring. Elizabeth Strout
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The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! Elizabeth Strout
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As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor. Elizabeth Strout
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I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it. Elizabeth Strout
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Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work. Elizabeth Strout
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I don't ever really know where I get my characters from. Elizabeth Strout
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I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me. Elizabeth Strout
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I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply. Elizabeth Strout
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'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it. Elizabeth Strout
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I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging. Elizabeth Strout
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