Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering some kind of agreement between those things is a continual, and for me, and ever-changing challenge.
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
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
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
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…
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 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…
I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do. - Emily Barton
I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.
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
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…
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
Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new …
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
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…
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
Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really…
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 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…
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