When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differ…

- Catherine Brady

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

- Catherine Brady

What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by th…

- Catherine Brady

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that …

- Catherine Brady

I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a cycle that seems so …

- Catherine Brady

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

- Catherine Brady

When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive trut…

- Catherine Brady

For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray u…

- Catherine Brady

I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this.

- Catherine Brady