List of Alice Sebold Quotes

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Alice Sebold
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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so i think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
Book Thinking Trying
I mean, if i went into my closet, i could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. i was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
Couple Mean Views
Depending on where i am in the process, sometimes i have a page count and sometimes i don't. sometimes i have an hour count; sometimes i'm just happy to string a few words together. i do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
Together Done Pages
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
Writing Voice Different
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
Character Sound Narrative
A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. i think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and i think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen.
Thinking Ideas People
I don't do much public speaking. i did a lot of stuff for bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then i pretty much stopped. i'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.
Book Done Stuff
I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but i'm kind of a process freak, so i'm excited to see what he does with it. i know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
Crazy Book Thinking
It's something that i know how to do because i taught for a very long time, so i can do it, and i feel a responsibility to do it - for instance, in this situation, where i'm touring specifically for this period of time. but most writers are not public people. there are a few writers out there who really enjoy it and are good at it, and can both work and do that at the same time, but i'm not one of those people.
Responsibility Long People
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. that's my level of involvement.
Bystanders Friendly Levels
I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way i'm fine with too. i have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
Attitude Way Laissez Faire
I wake up very early in the morning. i like to start in the dark, and i never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
Morning Dark Night
  • Born: September 6, 1963
  • Occupation: Writer
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