“A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.” WayWritingBookDifferentReadingApproachDifferent WaysGood Book Author:Emily Barton
“There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.” PeopleIfsWayWantWritingHumansBookDifferentUseConsciousnessNovelFunctionVarietyGenreDifferent WaysAccurateDelightedHuman Consciousness Author:Emily Barton
“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.” WorldWayWritingYearsKindPersonsIdeasStoriesLastsGuyWhiteFictionCrazyMiddleEnlightenmentThirdsAll KindsGenreBelongingSixtySeventiesMiddle AgedCanonCrazy ThingsEpitomeWhite GuysThird PersonBrash Author:Emily Barton
“Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingFictionWrittenHistoricalCollaborationHistorical Fiction Author:Emily Barton
“Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.” ThinkingWritingTryingMayPlayFactsHelpingShowsProblemTeachSupportTeachingAuthoritySolveHelping OthersClassroomGood Thinking Author:Emily Barton
“The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.” PeopleWritingDifferentProblemFoundStudentsSolutionsEncountersFascinatingThinkerDifferent Peoples Author:Emily Barton
“I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.” PeopleThinkingWritingProjects Author:Emily Barton
“I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.” ThinkingWritingYearsBelieveMeanDoneEnoughChallengesTakenExcitedFiftyBelieve In YourselfUnwillingWork Done Author:Emily Barton
“It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantGivingWritingHumansKindDifficultCommunityHuman BeingsSpaceActiveEngagedCompassionateImaginative Author:Emily Barton
“If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.” IfsThinkingWritingYearsToo MuchWeek Author:Emily Barton
