Quotes by Rebecca Makkai - Page 1

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
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Component
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Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
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Proust
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We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
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Chaos
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Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
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Fabulous
Longing
Quiet
Adolescent
David
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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Short Stories
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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
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Letters
Comparing
Goose
Rhymes
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Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.
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Imaginative
Offers
Richness
Tremendous
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I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'
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Chapters
Elementary School
Teach
Titles
Quite
Authors
Borrower
Early
Elementary
Quite A While
Reach
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In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.
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Arrows
Pages
Pointing
Short Story
Note
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The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.
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Consistent
Subject Matter
Worldview
Just Be
Varied
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When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.
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Appreciation
Disillusioned
Magician
Tricks
Author
Explained
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I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.
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Blur
Dishes
Exercise
Garden
Huge
Laundry
Neglected
Poor
Prioritize
Unimportant
Life Look My Life
Old
Feeling
Gets
My Life
Thirties
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I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.
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Assuming
Hungary
All Day
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I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.
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Cried
Embarrassed
Admit
Aloud
Biography
Crying
Elementary
Ending
Terribly
Gandhi
Happy Ending
One Book
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Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.
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Enough
Fit
Impossible
Mural
Novel
Painting
Scope
Seems
Short Story
Whole
Writing
Picture
Challenge
Close
Too
Short
Getting
Head
Pin
Story
Though
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My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
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Musician
Family Always Important
Family People Way
Academics
Everyone Else
Hang
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