Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a fantastical premise, and then I place it in the world we know. Or, really, it places… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar. — Laurie Foos Books Copy Share Image
You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's… — Laurie Foos Blue Copy Share Image
As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go… — Laurie Foos Business Copy Share Image
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when… — Laurie Foos Life Copy Share Image
I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure… — Laurie Foos Books Copy Share Image
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some… — Laurie Foos Books Copy Share Image
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad… — Laurie Foos Character Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Absurd Copy Share Image
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to… — Laurie Foos Books Copy Share Image
My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the… — Laurie Foos Books Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but… — Laurie Foos Celebrities Copy Share Image
I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to… — Laurie Foos Absurdity Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
