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.

Amity Gaige

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For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.

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I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write. by Amity Gaige

I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.

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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give t... by Amity Gaige

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!

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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 novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

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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.

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Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth. by Amity Gaige

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

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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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