Books Quote by Roy Kesey

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

— Roy Kesey

What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them…

— Roy Kesey

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

— Roy Kesey

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

— Roy Kesey

Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would…

— Roy Kesey

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…

— Roy Kesey

“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…

— Roy Kesey

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

— Roy Kesey

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

— Roy Kesey

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…

— Roy Kesey

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

— Roy Kesey

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…

— Roy Kesey