Zitat des Tages von Stewart O'Nan:
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.
You can't run from your roots.
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.
I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.
My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'