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I dont really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when Im wri

I dont really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when Im writing. The two go together – Im interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. – Tom Perrotta

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I read The Great Gatsby in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. – Tom Perrotta

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When I was writing The Abstinence Teacher, I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. – Tom Perrotta

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Ive been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. – Tom Perrotta

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. – Washington Irving

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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. – Albert Camus

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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. – Randolph Churchill

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I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I dont have a lot of sympathy for because Im just going to be with them too long. – Richard Russo

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I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible. – Hunter Tylo

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