Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
From Ann Beattie
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
I've spent my life supporting myself.
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