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Sara Nelson
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Sara Nelson was born on October 3, 1956, in New York City. A citizen of the United States, she received her secondary education at Phillips Academy.
Nelson works as a writer. The specific contours of her career — the publications she has produced, the subjects she has addressed, the roles she has held — are not detailed in the available record, and so cannot be characterized here beyond what the facts directly support.
The available record does not provide a date or place of death, nor does it specify a current location beyond her birth city of New York. As a writer and United States citizen educated at Phillips Academy, her biographical record as it stands centers on her formation in New York City and her time at that institution.
Quotes by Sara Nelson
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Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It’s a symbol, an offering – and sometimes a test.
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You know you’re in a bad patch when the most interesting part of the book you’re reading is the acknowledgments page.
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I m not about to tell him that I am just like Anna and Emma, an adulteress. My books are my secret lovers, the friends I run to to get away from the daily drudgeries of life, to try out something new, and yes, to get away, for a few hours, from him. He doesn’t need to know that my books are the affairs I don’t have.
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Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness – you can’t have just a normal childhood – has gone way up.
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Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.
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Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.
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I do think that publishers will spend more time thinking about these things the next time out.
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They wouldn't let me in the room where she was cause they were afraid I'd get it, too.
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