Amy Waldman Quotes - Page 2

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• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

  Amy Waldman

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

  "The Submission". Book by Amy Waldman, August 16, 2011.

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• In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

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  America, Gold, Tin

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

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  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Journalist Amy Waldman". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

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  Mash Up, Taste, Kind

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

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  Secret, Want, Given

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

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• As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

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  Character, Trying, Novelists

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• As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

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  Reality, Confusion, Add

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• Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

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  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

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  Bridges, Bats

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