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Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez
American Writer
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You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that. Sigrid Nunez
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No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite. Sigrid Nunez
Memory Course Opposite Infallible Quite
When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals and children because that's what I cared about and read about. But I never did. Sigrid Nunez
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You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction. Sigrid Nunez
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I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read a particular so-called classic, I go ahead and read it. If I had more time, I would certainly read more, but I'd read the way I always do - that is, I'd read whatever happened to interest me, not necessarily classics. Sigrid Nunez
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it. Sigrid Nunez
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