I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The dad is really going to take it on the chin in this… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Reynaldo says that the pacazo is nothing but an uncommonly large iguana. I prefer to believe that it is some imp of history, coincidence… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“The birds are catching fire again. I keep shouting up to them, Fly lower, fly lower! They never listen. They’re dropping all around us… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
When you spend so much time trying to father well, and failing, and trying again, and hopefully failing better, it's going to seep into… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
