Books Quote by Laura van den Berg

I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested…

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Laura van den Berg

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process;…

— Laura van den Berg

To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long…

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Laura van den Berg

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,…

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Laura van den Berg

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…

— Laura van den Berg

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…

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Laura van den Berg