Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
From Joyce Carol Oates
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
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