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The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
My Family
Stories
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Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Practice
Reading
Writing
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I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Small Child
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'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Towers
Baker
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I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Familiar
Voice
Wanted
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Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Grandfathers
Miner
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Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
All Writers
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Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Coal
Scare
Similar
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I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Catholic
Clergy
Fond Memories
Memories
Twelve
Fond
Interactions
Parochial
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As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Apprenticeship
Performing
Structure
Grammatical
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It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Loyalty
Fog
People
Powerful
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I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Right Time
Best Family Time
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I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Towers
Baker
Entirely
Mrs
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William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Admire
Thread
Alice
Different Reasons
Faulkner
First Place
William
James
Remind
Spark
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That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Men
Mother
Sacrifice
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The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.
Jennifer Haigh / Novelist
Art
Distance
Prayer
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