Franz Kafka is a huge influence, more than the Grimms. To allow yourself to get into the coal bucket and fly to the sky ... we learned that from Kafka, that you can have a thought and make a body… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“I once wrote a suicide story: A woman watches a truck bearing down toward the place on the sidewalk where she stands waiting to… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way to read.… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life.… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters. — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so. — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm bad at thinking about society. I love to make fun of very small aspects. For instance the privacy rules we have in the… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
