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The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterYou , Beauty , Blue , Water
My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterArt , Teacher , Women , Mother
In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel 'War and Peace' to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for the new edition of the novel, which he referred to by its original title,1805.
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterNew , War , Peace , Summer
I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterTwo , Years , Down , Try
When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterYou , People , Fun , Unhappy
If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterYou , Feeling , Compromise , Succeed
It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterLife , Me , Angry , Night
My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterFamily , Mother , King , Farm
A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.
Author: Alexander Chee - American WriterDesire , Woman , Either , Ignored
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