You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. - Adam Haslett
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
- Adam Haslett
We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I t… - Adam Haslett
We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I t…
Discovery is the joy. - Adam Haslett
Discovery is the joy.
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shamef… - Adam Haslett
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shamef…
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there. - Adam Haslett
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court. - Adam Haslett
Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, … - Adam Haslett
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, …
That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by other… - Adam Haslett
That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by other…
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will. - Adam Haslett
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
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