When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible in their own cars. You're driving past houses where maybe once in a while somebody… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
There were a lot of apocalypses that didn't make it into this assemblage because they didn't suit the world. And defining that world and… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe. — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation.… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I'm a horrible historian. My memory is bad. I read things and then I forget them. I can't understand dates and I can't measure… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it. — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
So many of the stories are about perspective and viewpoint. It's not just about seeing and revelation. The idea of having many different stories… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
