I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write. Amity Gaige More Quotes by Amity Gaige More Quotes From Amity Gaige 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. Amity Gaige goodknowwritingpeople 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. Amity Gaige melifepeopleworld Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! Amity Gaige givenobodywilllike 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. Amity Gaige thinkknowsmartdesire 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. Amity Gaige i-thinktruethinkmistake 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. Amity Gaige parentsfamilylifechildren Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth. Amity Gaige quietlyself-esteemliketruth 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. Amity Gaige parentsmeidentitydog
