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" I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom. "

Laura van den Berg

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" Florida is a very idiosyncratic place in a lot of ways - as are many parts of our fine country, but one could say Florida is particularly idiosyncratic. "

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" I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal. "

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" To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. "

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" I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the relationship to the sentence seems unconsidered or superficial, I have a really hard time reading the work. "

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" As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED. "

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" Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both freedom and danger. "

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" Not long after watching 'The Passenger,' I wrote the first lines of 'The Isle of Youth,' which concerns twin sisters who swap identities and become ensnared in the Miami underworld. "

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" A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially. "

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" 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. "

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" I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is doing the most I can with those voices and those landscapes. "

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" Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre. "

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" I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways. "

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" I once took a workshop with Jim Shepard, and he has this term, 'rate-of-revelation,' that has come to mean a lot to me: 'the pace at which we're learning crucial emotional information about the stories' central figures.' An ever-increasing rate-of-revelation is good; a stagnant r-of-r is not. "

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" Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there. "

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" I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all. "

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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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" When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another. "

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" The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present. "

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" I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really worried too much about attending to stories of women. "

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" Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me. "

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" I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.' "

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" I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling. "

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" I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male. "

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" I am temperamentally drawn to work that shoves the strange and normal against one another, it's true, although I don't see the 'strange' and the 'normal' as being two separate categories of experience; for me, they are intertwined, hard to separate. "

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" I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in a way. "

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" In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface. "

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" In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina. "

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" As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and I was really chafing against the very minimal brand of domestic realism that I'd read so much of in college. "

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" Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer. "

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" I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories. "

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