“You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's just me. That seems to be an endlessly challenging and interesting way to live.” ThinkingWaySeemsGirlChallengesInterestingMachinesBlueBoxesLoadWashingWay To LiveContinuumInteresting WaysWashing Machines Author:Laurie Foos
“I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't mine. I work hard at grounding the world as much as possible in the world we do recognize.” ThinkingWorldHardLosesLinesMinesHard WorkFineReaderIntentionFine LinesGrounding Author:Laurie Foos
“I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to ask questions in ways that other forms can't, or in ways we can't using solely traditional means.” ThinkingWayLooksMeanImportantFormAsksLiteratureFundamentalsTraditionalAbsurdity Author:Laurie Foos
“I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.” PeopleThinkingWritingStillsFeelingsMotherDifficultInterestingTalkingAnxietyMotherhoodUneasyAmbivalent Author:Laurie Foos
“I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious space and not ask myself what the novel is about or what my metaphors might mean because then, I think, you're just dead in the water.” ThinkingWritingFirstsMeanHardFactsMightAsksWaterMy OwnSpaceNovelHard WorkConsciousMetaphorThemeUnconscious Author:Laurie Foos
“Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.” ThinkingWritingTryingKind Author:Laurie Foos
“When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.” ThinkingShowsFilmCertainImaginationDealsMassHappeningsCollectivesCapture Author:Laurie Foos