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I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.
Anne Roiphe
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Anne Roiphe
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
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Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
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What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
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My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good.
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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
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