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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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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
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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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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
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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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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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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