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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Invitation
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Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
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I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
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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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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
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At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.
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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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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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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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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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