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Amity Gaige
American
Novelist
Born:
1972
Me
People
Think
Will
Writing
You
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To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
Amity Gaige
Me
You
Recognizing
Self-Esteem
Accepting
Self-Love
Who
It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
Amity Gaige
Saying
Democracy
Culture
Comedy
Political
First
Before
Evolve
Must
Without
Continue
Goes
Stable
Endure
Literature
Creating
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
Amity Gaige
Rights
Heart
Legal
Law
Parents
Human Heart
Kidnapping
System
Parental
Touched
Divorce
Deal
Legal System
Human
Children
Inadequacy
Millions
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
Amity Gaige
Poet
Others
Has-Been
Bad
Pretty
Been
Oh
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
Amity Gaige
Home
Family
Marriage
Think
Our
Slip
Ourselves
About
Written
Because
Reveal
Truths
Quite
Being
Where
Mean
Reputations
Keep
Keeps
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
Amity Gaige
Alone
Nature
Human Nature
Think
Society
Typical
Sees
Both
Writer
She
Within
Human
For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
Amity Gaige
Life
Me
People
World
Job
College
Before
Several
Telling
Folded
Would
Some
Had
Come
Years
Began
Campus
Just
Stories
Center
Urban
Worked
Reason
Kept
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
Amity Gaige
Will
Would
Give
Write
Writes
Nobody
Like
Sentence
Ever
I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.
Amity Gaige
Life
Family
School
Parents
Few
Every
Birth
Cried
Right Place
Took
Earth
Ease
Says
Born
Never
Days
Like
Comfort
Felt
Lore
Came
Were
Children
Place
Bus
Rooted
Regularity
Union
Many
Even
Keel
Right
Rained
Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.
Amity Gaige
Truth
Like
Self-Esteem
Quietly
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
Amity Gaige
Me
Dog
Parents
Other
Several
Worst
Tricks
Paranoid
Small
Joined
Merely
Identity
Occurred
Repertoire
Intelligent
Behaviors
Suspicions
Which
Whole
Each
Keep
Designed
Set
Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.
Amity Gaige
You
Eyes
Women
People
Psychic
Men
Power
Few
Own
Enter
Lodge
Running
Parenthood
Only
Ready
Few People
Sweat
Your
Prepared
Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.
Amity Gaige
Vision
Somewhere
Sets
More
Both
California
Make
Era
Debut
Novel
Helps
Credible
Her
There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
Amity Gaige
Work
Time
Writing
School
Would
Would-Be
More
Write
Got
Times
Than
Much
Interfered
As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
Amity Gaige
People
Nation
Weak
Could
Powerful
Powerful Nation
Separate
Peaceful
When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.
Amity Gaige
Art
You
Yourself
Seriously
Complaining
Too
Recognition
Laugh
Exactly
Eat
Taking
Feel
Woeful
Hear
Accomplish
Moan
Trying
Little
Ask
Need
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
Amity Gaige
Family
Army
Mother
Final
Approach
City
Born
Most
She
Soviet
Capital
Her
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