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Related material — An interview with author Susanna Moore from
the above date — January 29, 2013 — quoted here earlier today in …
The Author of In the Cut on Perception.
Susanna Moore
Adults may prefer Moore to the Christian witch
Madeleine L'Engle, another admirable writer.
The works of both Moore and L'Engle are much
better than damned fantasies of caped crusaders.
From the Log24 post Literary Notes (March 10, 2015) —
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We’ve talked before about how feeling different from the people around us – “mutant” was the word you used – informs or underpins the burgeoning writer’s mentality. Could you expand on that? By mutant, I mean that state in childhood and adolescence of isolation, sometimes blissful, often bewildering, when you realize that you have little in common with the people closest to you – not because you are superior in intelligence or sensitivity, but because you perceive the world in an utterly different way, which you assume to be a failing on your part. It was only through reading and discovering characters who shared that feeling that I realized when I was about 14 that I wasn’t insane. And yes, I think that the sensation, the awareness and then the conviction that your perception of the world is not what might be called conventional, is essential to the making of an artist. It is a little like speaking a different language from the people around you – it affords you solitude, but it also means that you are sometimes misunderstood.
— From an interview by Glen Duncan |
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