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Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai
American Novelist
Born: Apr 20, 1978
Always Artist Book Life Mother You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending. Rebecca Makkai
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Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy. Rebecca Makkai
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My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way. Rebecca Makkai
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In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person. Rebecca Makkai
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Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know. Rebecca Makkai
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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised. Rebecca Makkai
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Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that. Rebecca Makkai
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When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form. Rebecca Makkai
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