Quotes by Laurie Foos

Laurie Foos

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn’t come with easy answers.

Answers

Easy

Gray Area

As I get older, I’m finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that, I have no idea what they do.

Grace

Ideas

Pages

As soon as you start to question your own intent while you’re still in the process of discovering your story, you’re in trouble because you’ve pulled out of that unconscious space that is so necessary in the beginning of the drafting process.

Space

Stories

Trouble

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

Mind

Space

World

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we’d most like to read. Or we try to.

Thinking

Trying

Writing

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

Elements

Fairy Tale

Looks

I could have a lot of fun with Michael Jackson, I’m sure.

Fun

I don’t mind being called a “feminist,” as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel “feminist” simply because the female characters are interesting and strong.

Character

Interesting

Strong

I don’t see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I’m writing until I’m at the end of the novel or very close to it.

Ends

Novel

Writing

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

Lines

Want

World

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Accomplish

Answers

Aspect

Blue

Book

Character

Cockroaches

Culture

Dollars

Dream

Easy

Elements

Ends

Examination

Fairy Tale

Feminism

Fiction

Film

Firsts

Fun

Girl

Gone

Grace

Gray Area

Hard Work

House

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Interesting

Kind

Knows

Lines

Littles

Live Life

Looks

Mean

Men

Mind

Mixtures

Mom

Mother

Novel

Pages

People

Running

Space

Stars

Stories

Strong

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Quotes by Laurie Foos

Laurie Foos

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn’t come with easy answers.

As I get older, I’m finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that, I have no idea what they do.

As soon as you start to question your own intent while you’re still in the process of discovering your story, you’re in trouble because you’ve pulled out of that unconscious space that is so necessary in the beginning of the drafting process.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we’d most like to read. Or we try to.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

I could have a lot of fun with Michael Jackson, I’m sure.

I don’t mind being called a “feminist,” as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel “feminist” simply because the female characters are interesting and strong.

I don’t see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I’m writing until I’m at the end of the novel or very close to it.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

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