Apply Aesthetic Pressure to the Language: An Interview with Paul Harding

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I certainly worried, wondering whether I could pull it off. But I either had to write a second book or disappear. Much better, I thought, to get on with it.
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Snapshots of Detroit: The Millions Interviews Dominique Morisseau

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If you want to put a hashtag or a flag down, you’ve got to be really careful that you’re not planting that over somebody’s memories.
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To Cause a Deep Stirring: The Millions Interviews Debra Jo Immergut

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We should cheer for writers who pay painstaking attention to language and character, who push the form forward. I just don’t know if we should label them.
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Little Wars with My Body: Leah Dieterich in Conversation with Chelsea Hodson

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People in MFA fiction programs say, "At least you know what you're writing about.” I say, “I actually don't.” That's why I'm interested in writing about it.
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Priceless History, Intangible Richness: The Millions Interviews Lillian Li

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Without writing, I wouldn’t be less lonely. I’d be estranged from my loneliness. Or worse, I’d be ashamed of it. To be an individual is to be lonely.
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You Have to Invent Yourself: An Interview with Jaron Lanier

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It’s a moral imperative to at least state what everybody should do even though it’s so hard. Then we’ll gradually muddle our way toward something better.
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Nicola Griffith Doesn’t Want to Inspire You: Breaking Out of Ableist Narratives

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This is about disability. It’s about this sense of internalized ableism. About not feeling less. If I had to pick one thing, that’s what the book’s about. It’s about figuring out that you’ve believed a pack of lies all your life.
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What Makes Me Catch My Breath: Erika Swyler in Conversation with Adrienne Celt

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There are always articles floating around about how we think with our guts...rationalizing our instincts when we believe ourselves to be carefully deliberating. The mind almost never knows why the body wants, which can be either scary or restful, depending on your relationship to having an orderly existence.
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Uncomfortable Territory: The Millions Interviews Meaghan O’Connell

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What I remember and miss now, being out of that stage of the writing process, was the feeling of something being unlocked. It was always a little beyond language, just a sense of possibility, a door opening in my brain after I’d been hitting a wall. Despondency giving way to hope.
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A Mix of Paean and Elegy: The Millions Interviews Jamel Brinkley

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One thing that must have been in my mind as I worked on the stories in this collection was the violence of gentrification and the way it has been rapidly changing New York City and the lives of many of the people who have lived here.
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A Flash Fiction Roundtable: Short but Never Small

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Prose poetry and vignettes are driven by imagery and emotion whereas flash fiction has an almost desperate need to tell a story before it’s too late.
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I Had No Choice but to Write It: Elisa Albert Interviews Ian MacKenzie

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I wish I had some great, articulate account of being a male author writing in a woman's voice, but I don't. It was a voice—Emma's voice—that simply began to exist within me.
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Can You Just Trust That We’re Human: The Millions Interviews Natalia Sylvester

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We frame strength as having power. But isn’t strength also when you have no power but you still manage to maintain your integrity, even though the world is completely beating you down.
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Resurrecting Forgotten Lives: The Millions Interviews Stacy Horn

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My books are my attempt to defy death and the fact that most of us will eventually be forgotten, and tragically quickly. It’s a mission that will ultimately fail.
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Writing Has to Have an Edge: The Millions Interviews John Edgar Wideman

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It’s the work, it’s the doing it, that matters.
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The Pleasure Is in the Guilt: The Millions Interviews Lucas Mann

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Television has been elevated to an art form. You can watch 12 straight episodes of Westworld and feel like you’ve done something important. However, reality TV still functions as this lowbrow piece of culture.
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Limerence, Lust, and Love: The Millions Interviews Melissa Broder

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I always need to be writing because just living — and this is probably a fault of mine — living in the moment is not my forte. Sometimes when I am just alive, I forget to live in the moment. I feel like there is nothing is tethering me to the planet. Yet, when I write it makes me feel like — I guess it makes me feel less depressed. It makes me feel like, okay, I can do this. It makes sense why I am here. 
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Revising Your Own History: The Millions Interviews Anya Yurchyshyn

I got shingles, I lost the ability to feed myself. But it’s expected. It happens to every writer at some point in the process. It’s actually kind of heartening to be like, “This will kill you, or come close.”