It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running.

- Laurie Foos

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't min…

- Laurie Foos

My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elv…

- Laurie Foos

I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke u…

- Laurie Foos

As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled…

- Laurie Foos

I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherh…

- Laurie Foos

I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a …

- Laurie Foos

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doin…

- Laurie Foos

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

- Laurie Foos