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Jenny Offill
American
Author
Born:
1968
Being
Feeling
Life
Think
Will
Writer
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I'm perhaps too timid to do in real life.
Jenny Offill
Life
Character
Real Life
Too
Teeth
Way
Perhaps
Real
Yell
Timid
Scream
Page
Bolder
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
Jenny Offill
World
Those
About
Could
Write
Self-Contained
Like
Also
Felt
Quiet
Again
Moments
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
Jenny Offill
Fire
Those
Out
Classic
Seemed
Percent
More
Point
Had
Written
Catch
Like
Wrote
Parts
Always
Linear
Years
Maybe
Just
Note
Worked
Certain
Certain Point
Novel
Cards
Kept
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
Jenny Offill
Beautiful
Time
Me
Library
Sometimes
Will
Strike
Books
Collect
Outdated
See
Through
Write
Facts
Most
Call
Operation
Reference
Oh
Where
Anything
Quotes
Little
Flip
Momentous
Roulette
Chance
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