My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute. — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
