Emily Barton Quotes - Page 2

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• It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own.

  Emily Barton

  Moving, Creativity, Opportunity

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• As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

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  Thinking, Culture, Thinker

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• I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.

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  Book, People, Fiction

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• A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.

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  Book, Writing, People

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• Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.

  Emily Barton

  Trying, Answers, Helping

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• I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.

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  Country, Thinking, Our World

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• Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and new structural dilemmas and new characters - it's really exciting for me.

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  Teaching, Character, Voice

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• Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really, every time it pops up, it's very strange.

  Emily Barton

  Husband, Historical, Strange

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