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• ‟ Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

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• ‟ There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

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• ‟ I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

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• ‟ I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

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• ‟ Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

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• ‟ I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

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• ‟ A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

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• ‟ I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

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