Rebecca Miller Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, Writing, Roots

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how they interact. It's true that I'm hypersensitive to all that. Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self. We learn how to be people from other people. Then you think - what's personal freedom? Is self-creation possible? This book is dedicated to a friend of mine who really did re-create herself. I didn't do that - I stayed in the circus and am a circus performer like my parents were. I did what I was raised to do - I'm glad I did but I'm fascinated by the people who managed to do something else. I was always very curious about other people.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

  Rebecca Miller

  Fashion, Appreciation, Book

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

• As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, World, Starting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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