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Elif Batuman
American Author
Born: 1977
About Life Me Think Time You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Russian literature got me interested in what literature means. Elif Batuman
Me Russian Got Literature Interested Means
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad. Elif Batuman
Sad Funny Me Book School Made First Incredibly High High School Russian Anna Simultaneously Read Go Decide Literature Which Appealed Thing
There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous. Elif Batuman
Patience Few Humorous Bit Least Very Few Things Any Little Little Bit Things
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. Elif Batuman
Love Time People Become Clothes Living Having Writers Spontaneous Because Interactions Bodies
You base your actions on a projected ending, which you actually don't know. However, when you reach the crucial point, and the pinnacle event doesn't occur, you just need to go on, and something else will happen. Elif Batuman
You Ending Will Else Projected Something Something Else Point Crucial Reach Know Occur Go However Pinnacle Just Happen Which Your Actions Base Event Actually Need
There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep your love of literature pure. I think that's kind of silly. Elif Batuman
Love You Pure Think Kind Silly Write Study Idea Because What You Love Want Literature Then Should Your Keep Dissecting
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky. Elif Batuman
Culture Too Definitely Russian Literature Turkey Extent
As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained. Elif Batuman
You Everything About Write Explained Social Novelist
A lot of what I write is very personal. Elif Batuman
Write Lot Very Personal
My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it. Elif Batuman
Family Atheist Father Parents Religious About Strongly Only Both Feels Very Actually
My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf. Elif Batuman
Family Religion Me People Islam Consider Would Would-Be Super Wearing Brought About Argue Know How Feminist Odd Up Very Just Anyway Which Suddenly Start
I think it is true that when we're older, we realize the way that people act is... you know, everyone's kind of talking off the cuff, and everyone's, you know, spitballing sometimes. Elif Batuman
You People Sometimes Older Think Everyone Way Kind True Know Talking Off Realize Act
I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot. Elif Batuman
Struggle Book Girl Idiot Think Way Plot Find About Outside Make Romance Meaning Certain
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