I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die
I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish s… - Debra Dean
I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish s…
- Debra Dean
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continua… - Debra Dean
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continua…
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonf… - Debra Dean
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonf…
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you h… - Debra Dean
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you h…
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in v… - Debra Dean
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in v…
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose… - Debra Dean
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose…
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's versio… - Debra Dean
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's versio…
The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familia… - Debra Dean
The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familia…
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarit… - Debra Dean
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarit…
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