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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.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  People , New , New York , Thought


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.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  Life , Children , Beginning , Parents


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.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  Story , Research , Imagination , Useless


As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  You , Your , Enough , Try , Facts


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.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  You , Great , Character , Imagination


I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  Kind , Taste , Jane Austen , Jane


My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  Me , Children , Attention , Watching


Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  You , Me , Work , Day


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.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  Me , People , Think , Conflict


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.

Author: Amy Waldman - American Author
  You , Some , Away , Outside , Artist


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