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Carole Maso is an American novelist born in 1956. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound exploration of female experiences.

Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, L...

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The Art Lover

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Aureole: An Erotic Sequence

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Trust Confidence

Book:Defiance

Source: Defiance

“I believe in books.”

Books

Book:The Room Lit by Roses

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“Huddled around the fire of the alphabet.”

Fire Alphabet

Book:Aureole: An Erotic Sequence

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“How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.”

Real Hours Love Is Talking Endure Endless Real Love Farewell

Book:The Art Lover

Source: The Art Lover

“But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.”

Looks Sometimes Faces Stars Sky Dangerous Look Up Your Face

Book:The Art Lover

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“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.”

Writing Wells Two Different Brain Zone Rigor Recklessness Writing Well

Author:Carole Maso

“It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.”

Seems Earth Beautiful Moving Next Space Mystery Honor Shapes Privilege Pale

Author:Carole Maso

“After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -- The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive.”

Firsts Said Stills Beautiful Form Sex Alive Coffee Making Love Alphabet Hovering

Author:Carole Maso

“The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.”

Charm Gorgeous Reckless Luminous

Book:Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire

Source: Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire

“Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!”

Wonder Marvelous Mothering Sprung

Author:Carole Maso

“The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.”

Art Voice Written Rivers Moved Works Of Art

Author:Carole Maso

“If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?”

Ifs Writing Looks Doe Desire Suffering Language Example Shapes Paper Models Longing Traditional

Book:Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire

Source: Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire

“Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.”

Fall Truth Is One Day Falling In Love Truth Be Told Don't Fall In Love

Author:Carole Maso

About the Author

Born: 1956
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 13

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Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, L...

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