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Amy Waldman Quotes

Jealousy clings to love’s underside like bats to a bridge Picture Quote #1
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there’s often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction Picture Quote #1
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government’s approach to Islamic terrorism Picture Quote #1
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It’s strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end Picture Quote #1
While researching ‘The Submission,’ I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated Picture Quote #1
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren’t Picture Quote #1
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In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who’s been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It’s somewhat controversial and has met some resistance Picture Quote #1
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character’s actions or lines are truer than others Picture Quote #1
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we? Picture Quote #1
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge Picture Quote #1
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed Picture Quote #1
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that’s hard to capture in journalism Picture Quote #1
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And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We’re very sensitized to difference, but it’s much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities Picture Quote #1
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers Picture Quote #1
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don’t you stay home? Picture Quote #1
Sorrow can be a bully Picture Quote #1
The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes Picture Quote #1
Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace Picture Quote #1
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Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up Picture Quote #1
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It’s strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end Picture Quote #1
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are Picture Quote #1
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air Picture Quote #1
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid Picture Quote #1
Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you Picture Quote #1
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Jealousy clings to love’s underside like bats to a bridge  (Amy Waldman Quotes) As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there’s often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction  (Amy Waldman Quotes) The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government’s approach to Islamic terrorism.  (Amy Waldman Quotes) My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It’s strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.  (Amy Waldman Quotes) While researching ‘The Submission,’ I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren’t  (Amy Waldman Quotes) In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who’s been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It’s somewhat controversial and has met some resistance  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character’s actions or lines are truer than others  (Amy Waldman Quotes) I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?  (Amy Waldman Quotes) I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge  (Amy Waldman Quotes) History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that’s hard to capture in journalism  (Amy Waldman Quotes) And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We’re very sensitized to difference, but it’s much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don’t you stay home?  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Sorrow can be a bully  (Amy Waldman Quotes) The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up  (Amy Waldman Quotes) My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It’s strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end  (Amy Waldman Quotes) My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are  (Amy Waldman Quotes) In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air  (Amy Waldman Quotes) In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid  (Amy Waldman Quotes) Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you  (Amy Waldman Quotes)