“My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.” IfsWritingPhilosophyMotherSexImaginationDarkKissingCatholicScreensComplaining Author:Catherine Brady
“It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.” WritingHardDesireSexPeriods Author:Catherine Brady
“What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.” KnowsWayFeelsWritingFactsStoriesFoundKnow HowVersionsObsessionSneakWriting Stories Author:Catherine Brady
“I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.” WritingStoriesPastHabitTricksArbitraryConstraintsMy Past Author:Catherine Brady
“When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.” WritingProblemChallengesInterestingDecidedMarkStructureDialogueQuotationsQuotation Marks Author:Catherine Brady
“When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths.” WritingLinesPerspectiveSomewhere Else Author:Catherine Brady