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Melissa Bank [1961-0] American
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Melissa Bank is an American author. She has published two books, The Wonder Spot a volume of short stories, and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a novel, which have been translated into over thirty languages. 

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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
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'Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
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When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
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I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read. Teacher
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