“Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.”ġ6. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.”ġ5. “I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn’t talk about difficult situations – there was this culture of silence. “How we lie to ourselves when we’ve fallen in love with the wrong man.”ġ4. “It’s always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I’m especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.”ġ3. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.”ġ1. All are welcome at the table of literature.”ġ0. “A book does not discriminate against any reader. That left me out of American literature, for sure.”ĩ. In fact, ‘I was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one first said Mother. “As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world. “Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.”Ĩ. “Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.”ħ. “The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.”Ħ. It’s a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.”ĥ. I tell my students that writing doesn’t begin when you sit down to write. “But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. “It’s like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I’m stitching the scraps back together.”Ĥ.
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And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.”ģ. ‘My heart keeps open house,’ was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. “For me, the writing life doesn’t just happen when I sit at the writing desk.
Education: Connecticut College, Middlebury College (B.A.), Syracuse University (M.F.A)įamous For: Successful novels and other publication, In the Time of Butterflies
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