Post-modernism is dead because it didn’t address human needs.
I’m not an urban person.
Fiction is socially meaningful.
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don’t feel required to grasp all the time.
There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
It’s a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don’t need.
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer’s block.
I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.
I think of myself as a really happy person.
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.
I’m interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
The best advice on writing I’ve ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.
For them it might stave off what he could not help but see with clarity: that the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty.
I don’t feel anything either way. No feeling about it comes to me – it’s not something I have a choice about. Isn’t a feeling like that supposed to happen? I can’t make a feeling like that up, can I? Maybe God just chooses certain people, and the rest of us – we can’t feel Him.
He had seen the insides of jaggedly ripped-open dead people. He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody’s head. In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed wholly and disturbingly ridiculous.
Tell the truth,′ Nels said. ‘Decide to tell the truth before it’s too late.