Books Quote by Steve Erickson

If you're a smart writer, you listen.

— Steve Erickson

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…

— Steve Erickson

I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf that I…

— Steve Erickson

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more…

— Steve Erickson

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

— Steve Erickson

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

— Steve Erickson

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

— Steve Erickson

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

— Steve Erickson

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

— Steve Erickson

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…

— Steve Erickson

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

— Steve Erickson

While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony…

— Steve Erickson