I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a…

- Emily Barton

We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these…

- Emily Barton

Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really…

- Emily Barton

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of eve…

- Emily Barton

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't k…

- Emily Barton

Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new …

- Emily Barton

I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real pro…

- Emily Barton

I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about i…

- Emily Barton

I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.

- Emily Barton