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
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.
both debut era helps sets somewhere
Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.
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.'
bad
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
accept crucial dangerous gets happiness harder pauses requisite
It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.
school time work
There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
arrived next occupied
I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.
great ideally inspires
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
agreement begins builds clark consensus duped human initial needs network people says via
Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.
people
Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
designed joined merely occurred paranoid repertoire several small suspicions tricks worst
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!