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Antonya Nelson

"Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story."

Source : "Until It Isn’t". Interview with Giuseppe Taurino, americanshortfiction.org. July 15, 2014.

Antonya Nelson

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“Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm.”
“I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.”

Source : "Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.
“I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!”
“Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.”

Source : Interview with Lee Carter, www.hintmag.com.
“It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.”
“I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say â€” and it is occasionally true â€” that I need physics more than friends.”
“I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.”
“The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.”

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