Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
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… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
If we can think of a place, the physicality of a place, as a kind of 'material,' I would say the landscape… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access.… — 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 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
