![]() ![]() I’d love to have brunch with Alice Munro. Sometimes you have to be your own cheerleader. I give that advice to myself every time I’m feeling low. What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?ĭon’t give up. “I had to find out how challenging it was for myself – and also, how worth it.” “No one ever warned me that it’s hard to make a living as an artist, and I’m glad they didn’t,” she says. ![]() ” Marissa went on to write Things to Do When It’s Raining and her much-anticipated third novel, The Last Resort, which comes out this June. ![]() I gave up on the idea that it was going to be published and I wrote for the pleasure of it. So I wrote what would become my debut novel, Mating for Life, just for myself. “Then I realized I needed to write fiction, that it was an integral part of who I was. “With two novels languishing in a drawer, I felt I had no choice but to give up on my dream of becoming an author,” Marissa says. ![]()
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