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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Wisconsin
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The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. I think she listens, she said, too softly to be heard.
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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The living deserve attention, too
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
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Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.
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