Lucia Berlin Quotes

Lucia Brown Berlin was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame eleven years after her death, in August 2015, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux's publication of a volume of selected stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women, edited by Stephen Emerson. It hit The New York Times bestseller list in its second week, and within a few weeks, had outsold all her previous books combined. The collection was ineligible for most of the year-end awards , but was named to a large number of year-end lists, including the New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015." It was also a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Wikipedia

✵ 12. November 1936 – 12. November 2004

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Famous Lucia Berlin Quotes

“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”

Lucia Berlin

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.”

Lucia Berlin

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie? I'll do macrame, punk”

Lucia Berlin

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Variant: Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?

I'll do macrame, punk

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