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I'm so trying to give up meat.
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Meat
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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Male
Personally
Wished
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I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them.
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Organized
Tips
Enjoy Reading
Implement
Rarely
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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Reader
Entertain
Purge
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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Women Men More
Seriously
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I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
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Remains
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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
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Qualified
So Many People
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I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.
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Young Age
Time Age Young
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
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Odd
Odd Jobs
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I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.
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Unusual
School Everyone High School
Equally
Haunted
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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
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Complicated
Men And Women
Men Women People
Both Men And Women
Men Women Happens
Women Men People
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
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Shameful
Time Your Better
Admit
Time Better Your
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The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
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Assume
Day And Age
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Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
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Neurotic
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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
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Fourth
Dignified
Twenty
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There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper.
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Ongoing
Pens
Drop
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
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Curious
Something Else
Topic
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
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Intense
Boarding
Boarding School
Magnified
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Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability to shop for clothes.
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Shop
Weirdly
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
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Teenage
Teenage Girl
Man Me Feel
Japanese
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
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Credit
Autobiographical
Memory
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You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.
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Personal Experiences
Gift Me People
Deeply
Experiences
Me Gift People
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There are always interesting, innovative, dynamic stories being written and being published. They're not always being prominently published, but they're being published.
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Innovative
Dynamic
Published
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She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.
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Notebook
Interviews
Talking
Writing
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
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Female
Female Characters
Theory
Male
Authors
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I see 'Eligible' as a homage, and I see 'Pride and Prejudice' as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can't dispute my fondness for the novel.
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Fondness
Homage
Prejudice
Dispute
Eligible
Good Idea
Pride And Prejudice
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In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum.
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Impassioned
Admit
Believe I Believe Who
Conversations
Gwyneth
Gwyneth Paltrow
Recreational
Referendum
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
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Concentrating
Minimum
Rituals
Mode
Settle
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
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Captivated
Enjoyed
Hmm
Homage
Imitation
Me People Try
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I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument.
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Admitting
Be Careful
Both Sides
Disagreement
Sides
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
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Biology
Pages
Pigs
Smell
Boarding
Boarding School
Hundreds
The Only Thing
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In general, when any of us get outraged by relatively minor pop-cultural phenomena, I suspect it's a way of relaxing and not focussing on more daunting and intractable problems, whether personal or social.
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Outraged
Daunting
Phenomena
Intractable
Minor
Relatively
Suspect
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Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
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Compassionate
Satirical
Sincere
Life Way Person
Mocking
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Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.
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Assumption
Charming
Condescending
Pageant
Upbeat
Contestant
Female Character
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Everything 'Atonement' does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.
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Atonement
Haunting
Including
Intensity
Regret
Romantic Love
Ages
Connection
Depicting
Early
Incredibly
Showing
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I'm aware more than I was before I had books published that any review is a bit arbitrary - it's not really, say, 'The New York Times' that's authoritatively weighing in on the quality of a book, though it seems this way to the public.
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Quality
Arbitrary
New York Times
Weighing
New Way More
Published
Review
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Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.
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Interpret
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The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.
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Clever
Fair Share
Nightmare
Responding
Seeming
Sincerely
Notch
Received
Reviewer
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I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter's used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.
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Birthplace
Chips
Cream
Delicious
Dry
Extravagant
Ice
Ice Cream
Pints
Cincinnati
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In 2013, before the publication of my fourth novel, I met with a stylist at Nordstrom. Since then, I've rarely shopped for 'event clothes' on my own. I usually do it with my sisters or a friend; if I'm alone, I take pictures of myself in the dressing room and text them to my sisters.
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Fourth
Publication
Sisters
Dressing
Dressing Room
Rarely
Text
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Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time. I guess it's much more interesting to me to write someone who is a combination of good and bad qualities because that's what people are like in real life.
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Combination
Endearing
Good And Bad
Life Time Good
Prejudices
Qualities
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I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it's normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you.
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Life Time Experience
Dreadful
Peak
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A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish now? How long will it be stylish for? It's slightly embarrassing to admit this - because, as a novelist, I'm supposed to be observant - but I'm flummoxed by the way other women dress.
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Arbitrary
Embarrassing
Observant
Stylish
Admit
Women Dress Me
Appear
Cuts
Flourishes
Women Look Dress
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I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist, that I wouldn't just write full time. It's such a part of my life, and in some ways, it's a very unromantic part of my life. It's almost, to me, like breathing. I don't think about whether I like it or not.
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Anticipated
Life Time Teacher
Supporting
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For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category.
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Allegory
Different Things
Intertwined
June
Political Me People
Category
Studies
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I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters into a room or out of a room, or onto the plane, or through the grocery store. The political stuff, the class stuff, the gender stuff, is in the air, it's in their interactions, because it's there for all of us.
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Commentary
Grocery
Grocery Store
Interactions
Onto
Plane
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