The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story. — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I remember being in the same position as Ruby, when I no longer believed in God as I was raised to believe. But I… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I believe in art, and more fundamentally the freedom to express one's self creatively. People don't know yet what they'll ultimately believe in or… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal with what… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
