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I never knew there were this many stars. " "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you. " "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain. " "I see.

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Emily Barton

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

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A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.

Novel, Past, People, Think, Thinking

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

Collaboration, Historical, People, Thinking, Writing

Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.

Support, Teaching, Thinking, Writers, Writing

The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different 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.

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