“We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.” YearsKindBrainNovelHusbandIceBrokeGentlemanWrists 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
“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
“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
“It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.” IfsYearsHas BeensBookHardBerating Author:Emily Barton
