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Darin Strauss

Conjoined twins are identical siblings who develop one placenta out of a single fertilised ovum. No cases of conjoined triplets or quadruplets have been documented.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

I’m very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself – forgiving himself – in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you’re ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

Not to be too ‘Tale of Two Cities’ about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can’t answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

My prayer is improvised – though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters – and asks for nothing.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

I consider myself a Jewish writer – even if my characters frequently are not Jewish – in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don’t often attend shul.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

I think it’s a wonderful fact about Judaism – at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don’t have it all figured out. God is unknowable.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn’t even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.

– Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

I thought, ‘I’ll come back to New York. I worked for the ‘Aspen Times’ when I lived in Aspen. I’ll work for the ‘New York Times’ when I live in New York.’ It didn’t work out that way.

– Darin Strauss

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