I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
From Karen Thompson Walker
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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