Interviews & Posts Tagged ' fiction '

• February, 2010 On Listening: Salvatore Scibona Tunes in to Detail

  Tags: Community, detail, fiction, immigrant, Italian, narrator, non-linear narrative
  Published in Interviews

  

  “I think for a writer you don’t see a thing until you use the word for it and the more precise the word you can use the more precisely you see it. On the other hand, the word is an instrument in order to lead you to the thing and you can spin a whole lot of words around yourself for years and years and years, as the jeweler does, until it gets to the point where your primary relationship is with the language and not with the thing.”
• December, 2009 The Literary Horologist: Paul Harding “Tinkers” With Time

  Tags: family, fiction, magical realism, New England, non-linear narrative, time
  Published in Interviews

  

  “… I don’t write the book in any order, I just literally wake up and wonder about whatever immediately strikes me as interesting. Usually I have a question about something: ‘What does she think at that point?’ Or, ‘What does he do?’ Or, ‘What does the cemetery look like in the autumn?’ And I just start writing.”