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Where there’s a void of information, we can always form a narrative and make that the information, the truth.
We used to celebrate an author’s imagination when they wrote about characters very unlike themselves. Now we get upset because they’re somehow not supposed to. It does not bode well for fiction.”
He was a classic Vermonter in red flannel and gray sideburns, currently also fashionable in Brooklyn and possibly both Portlands, but nowhere else.
someone asked me about getting an MFA. I said: just take the money you were going to spend on a program, rent a cheap place somewhere, and buy a paperback of Stephen King’s On Writing.
the importance of regular tithing to the notion of one’s own worth.
Still, central Vermont was full of authentically falling-down houses. This one wasn’t all that special.
