I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf that I… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to last forever,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“The Movies have always been here. The Movies were here before God. Time is round like a reel of film. God hates the Movies… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
