The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The moment when my husband and I clasped hands and turned from our officiant, newly wed, was the most light-filled of my… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Over time, we became less sure we were something the other wanted to hold on to.” — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Winds shake the leaves and for a moment I smell smoke. I concentrate on the scent, but it vanishes into the aroma… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access.… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process;… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
