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
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I… — 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
Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on… — 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
In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
If we can think of a place, the physicality of a place, as a kind of 'material,' I would say the landscape… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is… — 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
