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• ‟ Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

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• ‟ I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

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• ‟ I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

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• ‟ I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

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• ‟ People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

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• ‟ I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

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• ‟ I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

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• ‟ I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.

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