Anita Diamant Quotes

• Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life’s pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

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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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• 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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• There’s something almost adolescent about Whitman’s paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

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• The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

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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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• 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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• Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

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• Shakespeare in Love… such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I’m a sucker for the accent.

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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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• One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

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• November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.

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• My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

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• My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

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• My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

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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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• I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

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• I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

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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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• I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

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Anita Diamant (24)

Birth:	27th June, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Anita Diamant is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books. She is best known for her novel, The Red Tent, a New York Times best seller. She has also written several guides for Jewish people, including The New Jewish Wedding and Living a Jewish Life. She earned a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature in 1973. She then went on to receive a master's degree in English from Binghamton University in 1975. Diamant started her writing career in 1975 as a freelance journalist, for which she won awards. Her articles have been published in the Boston Globe magazine, Parenting magazine, New England Monthly, Yankee, Self, Parents, McCalls, and Ms. She lives in Newton, is married, and has one daughter.

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