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Goodreads asked Elinor Lipman:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Elinor Lipman There are many wonderful things. I remember hearing James Tate say that the best thing about winning the Pulitzer Prize (I didn't! He won in poetry) was that you never know what the telephone call might bring. Best best thing for me is this: sometimes I hear from someone who tells me that they gave one of my books as a present to a sick friend; that he or she had been getting books on healing and nutrition and wellness, but that my novel made the friend laugh. I never forget those stories.

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Linda Gaines

Linda Gaines asked Elinor Lipman:

Have any other readers who were attractive English teachers in the 1960s written to you? At first I thought it was my story but of course things turned out differently for me.

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A Goodreads user asked Elinor Lipman:

She is a sixty-one year old auditor who has found employment always in analytical fields as government, banking, etc. Yet, when her office light is turned off she seeks peace, happiness and self-worth in a world of creativity. She writes, creates slogans, draws and dreams of writing one book in her lifetime. Sound like a good story??? It is real and is my life. Can a talent such as yourself offer me and advice?

Anne

Anne asked Elinor Lipman:

Hi Elinor, I love your novels and have read every one of them. I was rather late in getting to Good Riddance, but I was wondering whether you got the idea for a certain situation in the book from the background of the current president of France?

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