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11 quotes by Anne Michaels

Novels[edit] Fugitive Pieces (1996) The Winter Vault (2009) Poetry collections[edit] The Weight of Oranges (1986) Miners Pond (1991) Skin Divers (1999) Poems (2000) Correspondences (2013) (shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize)
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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

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As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to... →

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I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter... →

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Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

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I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?

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I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

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Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the... →

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I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression... →

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I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it... →

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It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or... →

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There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness -... →

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