I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense to me. I think of myself as someone who makes particular interventions into genres that already exist. — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader remind yourself:… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the real world… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward from that,… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense to me.… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just a narcissist,"… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share
