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 and the reflection of that real world. I don't exist in any of these historical periods.… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
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: Well, this is or isn't the author. This is a character.I think the second person turns that dynamic onto you, or situates it within you: This isn't really me, but what aspect of the character is… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
