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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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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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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.
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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
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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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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
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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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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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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.
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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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I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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