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
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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.
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Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.
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I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.
I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
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I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
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My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
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I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
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Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.
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I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
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I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
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I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'