Amity Gaige Quotes
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My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
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It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
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To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
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I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
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My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
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I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
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I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
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In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
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Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.
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I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
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I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.