Books Quote by Laurie Foos

My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what…

— Laurie Foos

To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book, or that…

— Laurie Foos

As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that,…

— Laurie Foos

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living…

— Laurie Foos

You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's just me.…

— Laurie Foos

I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious…

— Laurie Foos

I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to ask questions…

— Laurie Foos

I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke…

— Laurie Foos

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the…

— Laurie Foos

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with…

— Laurie Foos

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with…

— Laurie Foos

I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about…

— Laurie Foos