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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world.... We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it.... You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.

Andrea Barrett

Whenever [my father] saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person. Go play, go fish, go swim, go do something — why are you reading all the time?

Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett

Born: November 16, 1954 (age 71)

Bio: Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer. Her collection Ship Fever won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, and she received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001.

Known for:

Ship Fever (1996)
The Voyage of the Narwhal (1998)
Servants of the map (2002)
The Air We Breathe (2007)
Lucid stars (1988)

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