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I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. i know nothing at all (i'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. the more i've been writing novels, each novel i've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.

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I'm Boggled By The Idea Of Being

Anna Quindlen

I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. i know nothing at all (i'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. the more i've been writing novels, each novel i've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.

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You want your mind to be boggled. that is a pleasure in and of itself. and it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true

Larry king has been married more times than henry the eighth. we used to have that rhyme to keep track of them. 'divorced, beheaded, died. divorced, beheaded, survived.' with larry i think it goes, 'divorced, beheaded, divorced, escaped. zombie, lesbian, disappeared, inflatable.

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.

If i'm writing a novel, i'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. and i'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. if i'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. i can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, i know i can do it. but a novel is different. a novel is more like falling in love. you don't say, 'i'm going to fall in love next tuesday, i'm going to begin my novel.' the novel has to come to you. it has to feel just like love.

I’m cold,' snowden said softly, 'i’m cold.' 'you’re going to be all right, kid,' yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'you’re going to be all right.' 'i’m cold,' snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'i’m cold.' 'there, there,' yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'there, there.' 'i’m cold,' snowden whimpered. 'i’m cold.' 'there, there. there, there.

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