Posts Tagged ‘Marilynne Robinson’
The Literary Horologist: Paul Harding “Tinkers” With Time
Posted: December 19, 2009
Tags: Carlos Fuentes, Marilynne Robinson, Enlightenment, time, magical realism
“… 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.”
Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor
Posted: November 25, 2008
Tags: Marilynne Robinson, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Alice Munro
“It’s about fifty percent based on certain things I know from real life, and about fifty percent made up out of nothing, just out of daydreaming. I think that’s the way it should be. This is not memoir, this is not autobiography, this is not confession. It’s fibbing. It’s making things up.”
Exploring Transition: Aryn Kyle
Posted: October 18, 2008
Tags: Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, "Housekeeping", fiction
“I think a lot of my writing begins with something I lived or something I saw, but then develops from the question, ‘What would it have been like to live through that experience if I was this person, or that person, or if this had happened rather than that?’”
