Laura van den Berg

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Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.

Laura van den Berg
havana , uniquely , complicated
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Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

Laura van den Berg
holy , cow , everything
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I'm such a first-person writer.

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I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom.

Laura van den Berg
problem , quitting , because
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Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.

Laura van den Berg
florida , most , unusual
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I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.'

Laura van den Berg
love , his
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I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.

Laura van den Berg
write , anything , know
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Publishing at a young age is not really an indicator of talent.

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publishing , young , age
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Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

Laura van den Berg
anxiety , doubt , among
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I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

Laura van den Berg
am , incorrigible
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To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

Laura van den Berg
certain , think , both
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Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.

Laura van den Berg
often , expectation , women
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A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially.

Laura van den Berg
sense , play , important
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As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED.

Laura van den Berg
struggled , had , several
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We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

Laura van den Berg
trying , figure , out