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 Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach,… — Laurie Foos 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 with what… — 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, or that… — Laurie Foos 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 beyond that,… — Laurie Foos 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 you're living… — Laurie Foos 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 just me.… — Laurie Foos 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 that unconscious… — Laurie Foos 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 ask questions… — Laurie Foos 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 Samsa woke… — 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 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 in the… — 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 come with… — 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 us with… — Laurie Foos 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 ambivalent about… — 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 novel or… — 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 itself. Honestly,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
