Quotes by Steve Erickson

Steve Erickson

a dream is only a memory of the future

Dream

Memories

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more vague sense of where things may wind up, but at some point, if the novel is any good at all, the story and characters take on lives of their own and take over the book, and the writer has to be open to that.

Book

Character

Strong

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

Diagrams

Men

Taste

By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.

Becoming

Hands

Order

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

Shadow

Swim

Water

Certainly the last thing I want is to be “difficult.”

Difficult

Lasts

Want

For better or worse I’m the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I’m the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

Hearing

Records

Today

Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn’t abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those “alternative facts” that people believe when they can’t stand to believe the truth.

Believe

Country

Mean

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

Ink

May

Pages

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

Believe

Imagine

Secret

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Acknowledge

America

Answers

Approach

Becoming

Believe

Book

Calling

Century

Character

Color

Congratulations

Connections

Country

Creating

Creative

Culture

Diagrams

Difficult

Dream

Emotional

Ends

Essence

Expression

Fiction

Firsts

Gay

Generosity

Government

Gun

Hands

Hearing

Ideas

Ifs

Imagine

Ink

Inspiration

Instinct

Justice

Kids

Ku Klux Klan

Lasts

Long

Made

Materials

May

Mean

Memories

Men

My Own

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Quotes by Steve Erickson

Steve Erickson

a dream is only a memory of the future

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

Certainly the last thing I want is to be “difficult.”

For better or worse I’m the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I’m the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

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