“About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.” MenKindStoriesHandsSpiritReadingGriefPaperPagesTwentiesI RealizedTestimonyForeheadsFourteenLukeGazingCharismaticHand Holding Author:Blake Butler
“When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingStoriesShowsFeelingsWantedInterestingNovelPagesI RealizedShort StoryScreenplaysMonologuesInteresting WaysWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Shane Carruth
“Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color, everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn't quite comic book.” BookDoneCharacterHandsBlackWhiteStyleColorWallPagesI RealizedComicCoveredBlack And WhiteComic BookRipped Book:The Darkest Powers Series, Book 1: The Summoning Source: The Darkest Powers Series, Book 1: The Summoning