Latest Elizabeth Strout Quotes from Interviews

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• I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Mean, Judging, Understanding

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• I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Quality, Endurance, Faces

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• I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Character, Order, Use

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• I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within the realm of being psychologically and emotionally true.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Attention, Stories, Pay

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• You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Crush, Husband, Long

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