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

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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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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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 was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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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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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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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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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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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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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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