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As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.
~ Michelle Huneven
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Characters
Friends
Know
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Novelist
Tend
Than
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Drinking is a remarkable, automatic release and a way of relaxing.
~ Michelle Huneven
Automatic
Drinking
Relaxing
Release
Remarkable
Way
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For many years now, my source for salvific chicken soup has been the Sanamluang Cafe on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Kingsley Drive: crystalline broth, flecks of fried garlic, and a moist, steamed bird nesting on thick rice noodles and bean sprouts has stanched many a misery.
~ Michelle Huneven
Bean
Been
Bird
Boulevard
Cafe
Chicken
Corner
Drive
Fried
Garlic
Has-Been
Hollywood
Many
Misery
Noodles
Now
Rice
Soup
Source
Thick
Years
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I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves.
~ Michelle Huneven
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Also
Be Nice
Demons
Felt
Gently
I Think
More
Nice
Other
Our
People
Shortcomings
Themselves
Think
Various
Would
Would-Be
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It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.
~ Michelle Huneven
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Characters
Charming
Compelling
Does
Facts
Hand
Life
Literature
Merely
Narrative
Observations
People
Rarely
Real
Real People
Reality
Records
Sharp
Slide
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Writer
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My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.
~ Michelle Huneven
Afterwards
Christmas
Cooked
Died
Few
Her
Last
Mother
Roast
Standing
Weeks
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My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say.
~ Michelle Huneven
Always
California
Certainly
Delaware
Had
Jew
Like
Married
Mother
Protestant
Say
Sometimes
Unitarian
Were
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The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.
~ Michelle Huneven
Demand
Everyday
Everyday Life
Exaggeration
Gossip
Impact
Laws
Life
Like
Literature
Lot
More
Order
Reality
Shape
Than
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Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?
~ Michelle Huneven
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Ask
Autobiographical
Beautiful
Because
Bits
Counts
Dragon
Life
Offense
Our
Real
Scales
Someone
Tail
Take
Taken
Tiny
Us
Whole
Work
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