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> [I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/i-began-composing-the-next-poem-the-one-that-was-to-be-written-next/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

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## More by Steve Erickson

> [If you're a smart writer, you listen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/if-you-re-a-smart-writer-you-listen/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/to-the-extent-that-i-ve-ever-understood-postmodernism-and-i-m-sure/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/i-have-members-of-my-immediate-family-and-my-wife-s-immediate-family/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/before-i-begin-a-novel-i-have-a-strong-sense-of-at-least-one-central/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/i-m-my-own-ideal-reader-in-the-sense-that-i-write-novels-that-i-would/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/the-material-dictates-the-approach-i-tell-the-stories-in-the-way-that/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [“Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/everyone-she-says-is-his-own-age-of-meaning/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/when-the-thing-that-emerged-from-the-collision-of-sex-and-freedom/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/while-i-do-believe-i-become-a-technically-better-writer-over-time-in/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/obviously-cheap-sentimentality-isn-t-something-any-good-novelist/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [“The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to last forever,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/the-human-heart-commits-its-greatest-treachery-by-healing-it-commits/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/while-a-particularly-deft-sense-of-irony-may-be-one-of-the-tools-of/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/i-believe-novels-can-have-secrets-from-their-author-a-notion-i/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [“The Movies have always been here. The Movies were here before God. Time is round like a reel of film. God hates the Movies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/the-movies-have-always-been-here-the-movies-were-here-before-god-time/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/when-l-a-s-schizophrenia-between-dreamland-and-utopia-was-becoming/)

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