I do not work well when I am in living in a cyclone of panic. I reject actively seeking out destabilization and… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think that one thing about teaching is you're trying to communicate your thoughts about a work to a group of people… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Like many American readers, I was first introduced to Magda Szabo's work when New York Review Books reissued the Hungarian master's profound… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I teach fiction in my workshops, and some of the readings could be classified as horror. For example, 'House Taken Over,' a… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I realized that, for me, travel for work - I'm not speaking so much about travel for pleasure - had actually become… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I am temperamentally drawn to work that shoves the strange and normal against one another, it's true, although I don't see the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process;… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
“Over time, we became less sure we were something the other wanted to hold on to.” — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
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… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
