For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute. — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
