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15 quotes by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is United States author of fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate family and friends on the coast of Maine.
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I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've... →

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I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing... →

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I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do... →

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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of... →

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I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my... →

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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way... →

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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

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My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

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For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I... →

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In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and... →

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Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of... →

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