“Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.” ThinkingWorldFactsHouseNaturalMy OwnFailingEmotionalEmpathyWeaknessGenerosityInsecurityRepressionAbsolutism Author:Steve Erickson
“The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.” WantStoriesLastsLostTermEmotionalReaderConnectionsArtificeEmotional Connection Author:Steve Erickson
“While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.” IfsThinkingMayEmotionalConcernedToolsIronyNervesEngagementStorytellerRetreatUncool Author:Steve Erickson
