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I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to... →
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.
As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we... →
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or... →
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing... →
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.
I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would... →
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like... →
In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will... →