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… — 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 form of entering into a dialogue with ideas that are already out there, and calibrating how… — 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 Image
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
