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| “My stories come to me as clichés. A cliché is a cliché because it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, it would have been discarded. A good cliché can never be overwritten; it’s still mysterious.” |
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| “Whether you plot ahead of time or write to discover your story, you’ll eventually arrive at the same place: a point where you know the whole story. When you get there, you are liberated. You can focus on your prose.” |
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| “Setting is, in my view, the most underutilized tool in fiction. And to subsume its virtues under another category is to neglect its actual horsepower.” |
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| “I will always move through fiction, to some degree, like a toddler on a walk. But a love of the micro need not preclude attention to the macro. The toddler has motivations, too.” |
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| “The sext, even more than short stories or poems or novels, is the ultimate plea for a reader’s attention. Stakes are rarely so high.” |
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