In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones.… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most writers are… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world,… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
