“While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.” WayWritingBelieveInspirationHarderFinite Author:Steve Erickson
“I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.” BelieveI BelieveSecretNovelImagineNotion Author:Steve Erickson
“Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those "alternative facts" that people believe when they can't stand to believe the truth.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveMeanCountryFactsAmericaFacesHalfMillionsPositionSlaveryAlternativesDenialTwinsContestsDnaMonstrousAbrahamOther HalfRepercussions Author:Steve Erickson
“To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of them - one of its distinguishing traits is the story's awareness of its own artifice, and how that awareness becomes part of the story. And if that's right, then I have no idea how I ever got lumped into postmodernism except that I believe, since I was first published, people just haven't quite known where else to put me.” PeopleIfsFirstsBelieveIdeasStoriesI BelieveKnownAwarenessHavensUnderstoodNo IdeaTraitsPostmodernismArtifice Author:Steve Erickson
