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“I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.”

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Steve Erickson is an American novelist born on April 20, 1950. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into American society and culture. more

“Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more vague sense of where things may wind up, but at some point, if the novel is any good at all, the story and characters take on lives of their own and take over the book, and the writer has to be open to that.”

Ifs May Book Character Stories Strong Novel Wind Vague

Author:Steve Erickson

“I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.”

Believe I Believe Secret Novel Imagine Notion

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“I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.”

Different Process Havens My Favorite Decades Wander Neighborhood Obscure

Author:Robert Sietsema

“If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Next Goes On Approach Eating My Favorite Smell Treasure Hungry Desperate You Choose Hunts Avoidance Favorites Things Treasure Hunt

Author:Robert Sietsema

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.”

Screens Objectives Meals Restaurants

Author:Robert Sietsema

“If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.”

Ifs Want Feels Restaurants Knives Wrists

Author:Robert Sietsema

“You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.”

Ifs Want Writing Horrible Kicks Restaurants Want To See You

Author:Robert Sietsema

“There are a number of ways you can find out if a restaurant is good or not: just the way it looks can give you all these visual clues: is it well maintained? Is the décor slapdash or does it look like someone put some effort into it? The employees - do they look disgruntled or proud to be serving what they're serving. Even better, when you walk into a place you can look at the food.”

Ifs Way Giving Wells Looks Doe Walks Numbers Effort Proud Restaurants Visuals Employee Serving Clue Disgruntled

Author:Robert Sietsema

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