It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
From T. C. Boyle
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
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