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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven. Libba Bray

New, Idea, Java

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?' Libba Bray

Woman, Question, Roles

I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera. Libba Bray

Help, Need, Video Camera

I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world. Libba Bray

Love, Husband, Had

So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines. Libba Bray

Inevitable, Read, Symbolic

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it. Libba Bray

Love, Survive, Still

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically. Libba Bray

Color, Within, Still

It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?' Libba Bray

Blind, Date, Auditorium

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster. Libba Bray

Rock, Hit, Jonathan

I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already. Libba Bray

Feel, Everybody, I Write

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Libba Bray

Yes, Minister, Dad

I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest. Libba Bray

Honest, Side, Related

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write. Libba Bray

Think, Doing, Very

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. Libba Bray

Books, Like, Feels

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you. Libba Bray

Love, Tell, I Think

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book. Libba Bray

Love, Frank, Commune

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence. Libba Bray

Yes, Catcher In The Rye

You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance. Libba Bray

Pill, Matrix, The Real World

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book. Libba Bray

Living, Reader, Big

My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast. Libba Bray

Minister, Which, Trained

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