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Darin Strauss

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I'm really wary of self-help books. - Darin Strauss
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You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.' - Darin Strauss
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My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other. - Darin Strauss
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#Escape
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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter. - Darin Strauss
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If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing. - Darin Strauss
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My training and my inclination is to invent. - Darin Strauss
#Inclination
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The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom. - Darin Strauss
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#Whatever
In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be. - Darin Strauss
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Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists. - Darin Strauss
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What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city. - Darin Strauss
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Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read. - Darin Strauss
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Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.' - Darin Strauss
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It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives. - Darin Strauss
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#Grief
#Life
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#Think
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment. - Darin Strauss
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The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs. - Darin Strauss
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#Trust
#Will
I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy. - Darin Strauss
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#Three
#Writing
All writers have their own pet commandments. - Darin Strauss
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#Writers
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