Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey Camps Copy Share Image
What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all… — Roy Kesey Alliances Copy Share Image
“Reynaldo says that the pacazo is nothing but an uncommonly large iguana. I prefer to believe that it is some imp of… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly -… — Roy Kesey Certain Copy Share Image
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written,… — Roy Kesey Arguing Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Collections Copy Share Image
“The birds are catching fire again. I keep shouting up to them, Fly lower, fly lower! They never listen. They’re dropping all… — Roy Kesey Catching fire Copy Share Image
If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or… — Roy Kesey Attention Copy Share Image
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the… — Roy Kesey Common Copy Share Image
I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm… — Roy Kesey Character Copy Share Image
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to… — Roy Kesey Business Copy Share Image
You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's… — Roy Kesey Books Copy Share Image
Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that… — Roy Kesey Anxiety Copy Share Image
When you spend so much time trying to father well, and failing, and trying again, and hopefully failing better, it's going to… — Roy Kesey Bits Copy Share Image
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I… — Roy Kesey Books Copy Share Image
“So far he’s never been bit, but there was once, deer hunt, climbing a bluff and he’d slipped, rolled down a shale… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“He walked on steadily, and the black patches returned, took on strength and depth, became the houses of a small town. Joško… — Roy Kesey Long ago Copy Share Image
