If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to. — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share
You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us:… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction,… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
