“Often I ask myself, and I hope my readers ask themselves, ‘What would I have done in those circumstances.” Pam Jenoff talks with Writers Voices, about her book – The Orphan’s Tale,, a novel of historical fiction set in WW2 France and Germany. “I was shocked by the brutality in France. The incremental persecution of groups. First they were persecuting the immigrant jews… and the native jewish community said ‘Oh well, that’s not me.’ And then it… they thought it would never be them. … I tell people this is the book that it broke me to write. …It’s very difficult, more so now that I’m a mother, to deal with this material…”
You have to be tenacious . I know a lot of writers who a actually much better than me, but are not published because they don’t persist in trying.
If you are someone people can count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.
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