Force Quote by Laura van den Berg

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“The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present.”

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I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like…

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To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

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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,…

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I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is…

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My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells…

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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…

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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…

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As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is…

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Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

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