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“I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.” quote by Catherine Brady — Download Open image

“I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.”

Catherine Brady

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When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for…

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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits…

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I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a…

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What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what…

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When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your…

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You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And…

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If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

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I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a…

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It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.

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