You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.
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
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
I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.
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
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…
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 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 …
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 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 …
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
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.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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…
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