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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
- Anita Diament
#About
#Community
#Jewish
#Practice
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
- Anita Diament
#America
#Everything
#Good
#Something
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
- Anita Diament
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#Got
#Historical
#Nice
#Trying
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
- Anita Diament
#Bible
#Relationship
#Tradition
#Whatever
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
- Anita Diament
#Bible
#Book
#Other
#Person
#Room
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
- Anita Diament
#Childhood
#Denver
#Early
#Family
#New
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
- Anita Diament
#Adult
#Events
#Jewish
#Life
#Six
Biblical names are hot again.
- Anita Diament
#Again
#Hot
#Names
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
- Anita Diament
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#History
#Love
#Smart
#View
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
- Anita Diament
#Book
#Church
#Me
#More
#People
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
- Anita Diament
#Love
#Reading
#Rejection
#What You Love
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
- Anita Diament
#Bone
#Know
#Lines
#Only
#See
Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
- Anita Diament
#Day
#Love
#Men
#Passion
#Women
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
- Anita Diament
#Her
#Nanny
#Never
#Up
#Wanted
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
- Anita Diament
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#Husband
#Judaism
#Just
#Our
#Wedding
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
- Anita Diament
#Dining
#Family
#Heart
#Religion
#Room
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