Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.
Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child? - Marisa Silver
Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?
- Marisa Silver
In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as … - Marisa Silver
In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as …
I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships. - Marisa Silver
I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.
Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always disco… - Marisa Silver
Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always disco…
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. - Marisa Silver
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.
Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores. - Marisa Silver
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft. - Marisa Silver
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.
We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die. - Marisa Silver
We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.
I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is form… - Marisa Silver
I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is form…
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