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Now i'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. it's a really interesting age. now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. i think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. i see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. their true place. and it's very, very exciting to me.

-Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich

Now i'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. it's a really interesting age. now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. i think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. i see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. their true place. and it's very, very exciting to me.

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I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.

I think it's very pretty. can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? i think it's pretty. if you're the only one? that's pretty pretty. and what about the boys? don't you want them to think you're pretty? i wouldn't want a boy to think i was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought i was pretty.

Computer chips will cost about a penny. that's the cost of scrap paper. the internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. when we blink, we will go online. when we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking chinese, into english with subtitles as they speak.

You are merely the lens in the beam. you can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. if you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. you will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. my son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. i managed to avoid using a computer. i don't even have a cellphone. i feel lucky i managed to live like that.

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. it is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.

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