Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russellis an American writer of speculative fiction novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 August 1950
CountryUnited States of America
accepted applied family girlfriend lived lovely mexican mexico placed poetry program ruth six spanish weeks
When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.
clever yield answers
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
fall rain perfect
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
decision reason good-decision
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
heart pieces break
God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.
teaching school dental
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
teenager wish saws
Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.
art cleveland council
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
thinking worldview
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
years grace dreamer
Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!
color two historical
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
moving character stills
The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.