“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual details bringing the scene alive for the characters and hence for us. Research serves fiction best when it… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“There's an exercise I'll do sometimes with a class in which we'll start with a word; I'll give everyone a word, and they'll write… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“Fans of the Peanuts comic strip may also remember Snoopy beginning his novel again and again, always starting with the line 'It was a… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, I listened to a rabbi give a talk and she was explaining what a blessing is. It is a naming… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“A more generous, more useful interpretation of the phrase is that we should write about what we know, *however we come to know it,*… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“We weep for characters, and then we go brush our teeth and have to face the fact that the world is warming at such… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual details bringing… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
