We’re all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren’t we? I am, at least. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
Being scared by a movie offers a safe catharsis, because the terror is confined to the screen. It’s an adrenalin spike, and when I come back down, I feel a bit more leveled. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don’t see craft as just being technique – it’s also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
On my first trip to Havana, I was stopped by a woman who turned out to be a Canadian tour guide and who had mistaken me for a woman who had been part of one of her tour groups. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
As for me, I was a lonely kid, with few close friends until I was an adult – even when I might have been perceived as being on the inside, I felt like I was on the outside, kind of like viewing the world through a sheet of glass. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
If you’re working on a novel, whatever you do, don’t say, ‘I am almost finished with my novel.’ It’s worse than chanting Bloody Mary three times in front of a mirror. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
If I leave the fictional world for too long, it’s a bit like stepping through a portal, entering another reality, and then not knowing how to get back to where you were before. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I love it, I need it, and so it never occurred to me to put writing on the back burner. Laura van den Berg Read Quote
