A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to…

- K. M. Soehnlein

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first …

- K. M. Soehnlein

I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up…

- K. M. Soehnlein

It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together …

- K. M. Soehnlein

Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on wor…

- K. M. Soehnlein

Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal with what you do with your capacity for…

- K. M. Soehnlein

I remember being in the same position as Ruby, when I no longer believed in God as I was raised to believe. But I still am a believer - it's a person…

- K. M. Soehnlein

It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that i…

- K. M. Soehnlein

Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, …

- K. M. Soehnlein