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 for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some meaningful way. It doesn't come easy to me. I really admire people who do it with… — 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
