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“I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.”

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Claire Messud is an American novelist known for her profound psychological portrayals and complex character development. Her works often explore the lives, emotions, and identities of modern women. more

“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.”

People Thinking Mean Children Dream Share Crazy Mines Husband Behavior Logic Madness Patient Edges Insane I've Learned Professors Be Patient Tease Crazy People Unmotivated

Book:The Woman Upstairs

Source: The Woman Upstairs

“Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.”

World Way Writing Essentials My Way

Author:Claire Messud

“I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.”

My Own Expenses Peculiar Currency Modest Pennies Pedestrians

Author:Claire Messud

“An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people like the Chekhov story The Lady With the Little Dog.”

People Littles Stories Our Lives Dog Invisible Abiding Preoccupation Chekhov

Author:Claire Messud

“Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.”

Children Self Reading Rooms Scene Setting Settings Bores Indulgence Showing Off Self Indulgence

Author:Mark Haddon

“To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.”

Language Felt Natural Views Scales Sublime Stunning Inadequacy

Author:Eleanor Catton

“I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.”

Littles Effort Disappointment Unified

Author:Eleanor Catton

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