A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
![“We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.” quote by Emily Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e93/emily-barton-18422_books_we-me-and-husband-had-been-learning-abou_182880.jpg)
![“[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these…” quote by Emily Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/049/emily-barton-18422_arguing_michael-chabon-is-arguing-in-favor-of-wh_447279.jpg)
![“I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it functions, but I think that, in some senses, in those two novels, that was difficult for people to see.” quote by Emily Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e7b/emily-barton-18422_books_i-m-not-for-it-brookland-and-the-testame_613821.jpg)
