In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time. Marge Piercy
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When you are interested in someone’s life, you want to understand their choices and how they turn out. This shows that you care about them and what they do. When you think about it, you will find that everyone is an interesting person and you will find little things of interest about everyone.

Source: Braided Lives

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