The moment when my husband and I clasped hands and turned from our officiant, newly wed, was the most light-filled of my… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“I asked why we kept trying for so long, why we even came to Paris, if we both knew we never really… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“When you're married, our counselor had told us, happiness is like a joint banking account; it becomes full or depleted in tandem.” — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
When I was in grad school, my husband and I used to house sit for a couple in Harvard Square, so we… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“My husband is nervous about a lot of things down here, like the monstrous size of the fire ants and the quality… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process;… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is our relationship to history? What are we blind to? What evils are lurking under the smooth surface of the self? - through radical dislocations. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
