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Novelist

Carol Anshaw, born in 1946, is a prominent American novelist known for her delicate emotional descriptions and profound character portrayals. Her works have won numerous literary awards and have had a significant impact on contemporary American literature.

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“I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.”

Ends Faces Hate Crime Receiving Remarks Hate Crime Disparaging

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.”

Knows Way Writing Firsts Book Students Linear

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.”

Thinking Realizing Holes Manifestation

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.”

Writing Reading Reader Conspiracy

Author:Carol Anshaw

“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.”

Character Reader Gay Assumption Irrelevant

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.”

People Knows Book Objects Goes On Disappear

Author:Carol Anshaw

“Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.”

Romance Fun Stress Injury Repetitive

Book:Carry the One: A Novel

Source: Carry the One: A Novel

“Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.”

Stories Voice Fiction Childhood Sorrow Offers Adults Contemporary Realms Affliction Geography Seductive Contemporary Fiction

Author:Carol Anshaw

“Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.”

Sorrow Pet Contracts

Book:Lucky in the Corner: A Novel

Source: Lucky in the Corner: A Novel

“You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Simple Cities Add Complicated Complication

Author:Carol Anshaw

“It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.”

Stories Easy Lines Harder Plot Plot Lines

Book:Aquamarine

Source: Aquamarine

“Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?”

Trying Years Moments Seems Memories Tiny Fragments Memory Of Someone

Author:Carol Anshaw

About the Author

Born: 1946
Known for: Novelist
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