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Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz
American Novelist
Born: May 16, 1961
Dog Lie Life Me People You
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A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Good Resonant Sides Tell Remade Good Story Remarkable Generations New Readers Itself Endlessly Story
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up. Jean Hanff Korelitz
People Make Narrative Up Offer Need
Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it. Jean Hanff Korelitz
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As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Adversity Changed Indeed Characters Seeing Rise Compulsion Writer Take Crumble Until How Again Formidable Interesting Them Who Appear Grown Watching
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Work Lie Care Pretend About Writers Colossal Serious Film Adaptation
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel. Jean Hanff Korelitz
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Made College Sense Markers Spend London Recorded Coloured Occasion Returned Cambridge Years Diary Six Graduating After Aged Convey Event Two University
You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean. Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Waiting Become High Imperial Person Did Sitting Maybe Theater Note Then Right Start
Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Love Gun Every Would See Disappear Personally Planet
Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Complete Would Would-Be Without Naturally Washington March
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Dog Allied He Stuff Hand Human Preference Breed Creature Species
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive. Jean Hanff Korelitz
You Baby Birth Alive Without Surgery Successful
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose. Jean Hanff Korelitz
God Day Back Prose Supreme Editorial Trying Literary Lowly Novelist Reigned Assistant Night
When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Great You Obligations Whatever Down Out Plot Finding Something Prevent Get Being Happens Might Next Uniquely Satisfying Right
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Best Glorious Books Say Neither Fine Both Writers Put Simply Prose Without Verbal Just Story Much Disparage Thing

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