Occupation: Writer Birth: June 2, 1973
I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obli….
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is awar….
Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of peopl….
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are..
Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. A….
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel..
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate fr….
In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions..
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages..
We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?.
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some peopl….
I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another….
People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives..
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm..
There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very p….
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confou….
Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment ….
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two..
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader..
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with peopl….
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the c….