“But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.” WayFeelsFactsMovingLyingHonestEventsPerspectiveMereBrandsNovelists Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.” WayChristianClearEventsNotionTheologyHorizonAfterlifeSingularityEvent HorizonChristian Theology Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.” IfsWayYearsFirstsRealHappensRememberPoliticalWaitingRealizingLevelsFieldsMinesBecomingLuckySittingFirst TimeVictimGuidesPassingPassingsDesertDramaticMechanismSixtySeventiesEightyIrreparablePassing By Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon related to technology and rapid dissemination of data. I did know that whatever its cause or nature, I wanted to interrogate this phenomenon. But the only way for me to do that, the only tool I have to dissect it with, is a fictional narrative.” IfsKnowsWayWantedCausesTechnologyToolsSpeciesContemporaryDataNarrativeRelatedPhenomenonRapidsDissemination Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I know well what faith really means to people in their daily lives, as there are many people in my family whose lives are permeated by their faith: it dictates the way they behave and sustains them in tough times, of which we've had too many lately.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsMeanToughMy FamilyBehaveDaily LifeTough TimesReally Mean 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.
