American - Writer | 1983 -
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open to useful influence. I'm praying for it.
Laura van den Berg
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If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months, but a novel really demands that I step out of my life and vanish into the world of the book.
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I think that one thing about teaching is you're trying to communicate your thoughts about a work to a group of people who may or may not share that sentiment. This has forced me to become a lot more articulate about what I respond to and what I don't respond to in fiction.
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I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.
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The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the ones where you find yourself in a world that's less scorched-earth and instead a world that has just been made different.
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I'm such a first-person writer.
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I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom.
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Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.
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Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions.
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I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.
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I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.
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I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is how I see the world.' And it seems my sight is off-kilter and kind of strange, but I come by that naturally; I'm not consciously pushing toward a particular point on the continuum.
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