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
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.
art ask eat hear moan taking trying woeful
When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.
self-esteem
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
past waiting unhappy
Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?
heart open-your-heart
To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.
grief childhood remember
Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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.
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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.
family home keeps marriage ourselves quite reveal slip truths written
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.
alone both human nature sees society typical within writer
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.
comedy continue creating endure goes literature political saying
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.