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Darin Strauss quotes: All writers have their own pet commandments. All writers have their own pet commandments.
Darin Strauss quotes: I have come to love you in spite of Do I want to be loved in spite of? ... Does anyone? I have come to love you in spite of
Do I want to be loved in spite of? ... Does anyone?
Darin Strauss quotes: The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom. The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
Darin Strauss quotes: I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them. I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.
Darin Strauss quotes: We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand. We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.
Darin Strauss quotes: The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts. The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts.
Darin Strauss quotes: Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one. Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.
Darin Strauss quotes: I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
Darin Strauss quotes: His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them. His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them.
Darin Strauss quotes: Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law. Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.
Darin Strauss quotes: Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason. Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
Darin Strauss quotes: My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other. My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
Darin Strauss quotes: I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that. I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that.
Darin Strauss quotes: It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it. It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
Darin Strauss quotes: The sky had dropped a curtain on the sun. The sky had dropped a curtain on the sun.
Darin Strauss quotes: What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city. What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.
Darin Strauss quotes: Diminish the influence of fate Diminish the influence of fate
Darin Strauss quotes: Self-hate is rarely unconditional. Self-hate is rarely unconditional.
Darin Strauss quotes: Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them. Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.
Darin Strauss quotes: A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots. A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.
Darin Strauss quotes: I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives. I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
Darin Strauss quotes: I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols. I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
Darin Strauss quotes: When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
Darin Strauss quotes: Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss. Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
Darin Strauss quotes: My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing. My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
Darin Strauss quotes: I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace. I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.
Darin Strauss quotes: Your muscles can tense with hope. Your muscles can tense with hope.
Darin Strauss quotes: When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter. When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
Darin Strauss quotes: My training and my inclination is to invent. My training and my inclination is to invent.
Darin Strauss quotes: Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling. Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.
Darin Strauss quotes: If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction? If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
Darin Strauss quotes: Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of. Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.
Darin Strauss quotes: Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate. Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.
Darin Strauss quotes: Things don't go away. They become you. Things don't go away. They become you.
Darin Strauss quotes: The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure. The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
Darin Strauss quotes: Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult. Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
Darin Strauss quotes: My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock. My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
Darin Strauss quotes: I'm really wary of self-help books. I'm really wary of self-help books.
Darin Strauss quotes: I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories. I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
Darin Strauss quotes: Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists. Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
Darin Strauss quotes: Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines. Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
Darin Strauss quotes: The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
Darin Strauss quotes: What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?
Darin Strauss quotes: Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh. Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.
Darin Strauss quotes: To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
Darin Strauss quotes: We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough. We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.
Darin Strauss quotes: My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened. My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

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