Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige
Amity Gaigeis an American novelist, known for her books O My Darling, The Folded World and Schroder...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
deny novels profoundly writers
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
poetry
I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
functional literally love reserve since word
If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?
certainly good intention people please truly trying willing
I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
children
I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.
both countries heard mysterious possessed russia
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
apartment bricks buildings coal continues epic lines name notorious occupy outside post union until
In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.
best far home inner interest leads
In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
love needed novel
I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
time wrinkle
I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'