Often when dialogue doesn’t work, it’s because people are using dialogue as a vehicle to get something across, instead of putting people in a room together and watching what happens.—Thisbe Nissen

Research can help direct impulse, but usually it enriches and deepens your levels of information.—Maria Flook, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

I love the idea that particles are divided into electrons, protons, and neutrons, which are made up of quarks, then upquarks, downquarks, neutrinos, then, finally, strings. Everything in and around us is vibrating. —Elizabeth Cox, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

Stories let us say things that we might otherwise censor, hide even from ourselves.—Vikram Chandra, interviewed by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais

For me it’s always been a question of writing the kind of stories I want to read, and it seems so simple.—Roy Parvin

You write and you write and you write for a long time because you’re learning how to do it, because there’s pleasure in doing it. People need to work harder at writing and work a little less hard at publishing.—Ann Patchett, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

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