Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.
Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
It's been such a huge part of my life, it's hard for me to separate it out. All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood. I was around these amazing people and went to exotic locations. The whole movie-making thing is so magical.
Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.
