The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succin…

- Bob Shacochis

With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations…

- Bob Shacochis

Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle …

- Bob Shacochis

I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, …

- Bob Shacochis

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if …

- Bob Shacochis

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

- Bob Shacochis

What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character a…

- Bob Shacochis

The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time t…

- Bob Shacochis

For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends a…

- Bob Shacochis