44 Quotes by Amity Gaige

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

I loved Madeleine L'Engle as a child - 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.