Amity Gaige Quotes
-
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
-
If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
-
I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
-
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.
-
Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.
-
Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'