Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitzis an American novelist and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 May 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
colossal pretend serious work writers
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.
alive
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.
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You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.
east time
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.
endlessly good itself remade
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
york
I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
love
Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
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I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.
people
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.