Dream Quote by Steve Erickson

““Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one.””

Steve Erickson

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To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of them - one of its distinguishing traits is the story's awareness of its own artifice, and how that awareness becomes part of the story. And if that's right, then I have no idea how I ever…

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I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

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The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want…

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“Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.”

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“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of…

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While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

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Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the…

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“The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to last forever,…

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and…

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“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth.”

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