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“Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.” quote by Roy Kesey — Download Open image

“Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.”

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What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a…

“Reynaldo says that the pacazo is nothing but an uncommonly large iguana. I prefer to believe that it is some imp of history, coincidence…

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The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to…

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Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's because our "voicier" writers hew so closely to one given set of dictional tics that we as readers can't read the books all the way through in a single sitting, because if we…

For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing…

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“The birds are catching fire again. I keep shouting up to them, Fly lower, fly lower! They never listen. They’re dropping all around us now, and we run for the nearest building, this big squat red thing, a county office of some kind, maybe something to do with zoning? But the door is locked and no one comes no matter…

If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap…

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The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most…

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I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing…

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We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any…

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You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the…

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Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching…

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Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

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The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one…

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In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp…

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As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and…

It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to…

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured…

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I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then…

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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be…

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When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.…

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If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story?

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