Carol Anshaw

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal…

— Carol Anshaw

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

— Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get…

— Carol Anshaw

“...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear.…

— Carol Anshaw

“She shared the curse of many artists—that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with…

— Carol Anshaw

“Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One”

— Carol Anshaw

“But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the…

— Carol Anshaw

Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory…

— Carol Anshaw

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

— Carol Anshaw

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

“She pitied everyone who didn't have a sister.”

— Carol Anshaw

“She looked around the table and saw each of them as they looked that night...All of them in their last hours of…

— Carol Anshaw

“But for the most part, she was the Maude who Alice would have said she wanted all along. But instead of seeming…

— Carol Anshaw

“He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the…

— Carol Anshaw

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

— Carol Anshaw

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book…

— Carol Anshaw

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which…

— Carol Anshaw

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…

— Carol Anshaw

“Because of her hospital schedule, she was either not around at all, or sleeping, or around a lot.”

— Carol Anshaw

“You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are…

— Carol Anshaw

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

— Carol Anshaw

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to…

— Carol Anshaw