Leslie Pietrzyk

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

“This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it…

— Leslie Pietrzyk