Quotes by Anita Diamant

Anita Diamant

American author

Lived from: 1951 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  • As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
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  • Biblical names are hot again.
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  • I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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  • I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
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  • I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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  • I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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  • I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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  • I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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  • My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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  • My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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  • November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
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  • One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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  • Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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  • Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
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  • Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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  • The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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  • The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
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  • The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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  • The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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  • There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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