“Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.” StillsTwoSometimesStrongConsciousnessInfluenceDrawingAssumptionCollectivesSimilarityZeitgeistCollective Consciousness Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the academy answer and say that it was very deliberate and I had a plan in mind and I executed that plan exactly to the letter. But this isn't the case.” GivingFeelsMindI CanTwoAsksAnswersCasesPlansLettersCraftsAsk MeDeliberateAcademy Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.” TwoTogetherDarkOpinionTasteAbsurdSense Of Humor Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between my characters I recognize it as a discussion between two aspects of my own personality, aspects which are too often at odds.” WayWritingTwoCharacterMy OwnEffortFiguresPersonalityAspectDialogueOne WayDiscussionOddsMy Own Personality Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. You wish they understood that there is joy in this fact, greater joy and love in just this one last moment than they experienced in the entirety of their lives. Because even in this last moment there is still Everything, whole galaxies and eons, the sum total of every experience across time, shrunk to the head of a pin, theirs for the asking, right here, right now. And so anything, anything, anything is possible.” StillsTwoWholeMomentsFactsLastsJoyWishGreaterRight NowUnderstoodAnd LoveAskingCellsDoomedGalaxyPinsAnything Is PossibleEntirety Author:Ron Currie Jr.
