Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
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