Paul Park Quotes

#1. The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

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#2. Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

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#3. There's nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

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#4. I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.

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#5. Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.

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#6. This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

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#7. Sometimes you've just got to let them scream, right?

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#8. And you're disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

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#9. Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new!

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#10. Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

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#11. Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

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#12. Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

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#13. We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

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#14. The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

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#15. That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

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