In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf that I… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share
The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. — Steve Erickson Copy Share
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
“The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to last forever,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. — Steve Erickson Copy Share
“The Movies have always been here. The Movies were here before God. Time is round like a reel of film. God hates the Movies… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
