Anita Shreve
Novelist
1946-10-07 – 2018-03-29
American novelist and journalist whose bestselling fiction often explored marriage, loss, and moral conflict. She is widely known for The Pilot's Wife and other contemporary literary works.
Books by Anita Shreve
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The Pilot's Wife
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Quotes by Anita Shreve
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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.
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The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.
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You have to do what your heart dictates, Vivian says. Do you believe that?Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.
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And she thought then how strange it was that disaster— the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face— could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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You have to do what your heart dictates, Vivian says. Do you believe that?Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?
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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.
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And she thought then how strange it was that disaster— the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face— could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
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A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.
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I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.
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A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
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My favourite books series as a young child was the Frank L. Baum 'Wizard of Oz' series. They were beautifully written, oversized fat books with wonderful type and illustrations.
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