Writing Quotes by Laurie Foos

Laurie Foos

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

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Laurie Foos

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.

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Laurie Foos

I think it’s still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.

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Laurie Foos

I’m not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious space and not ask myself what the novel is about or what my metaphors might mean because then, I think, you’re just dead in the water.

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Laurie Foos

I’ve realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it’s all going to turn out.

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Laurie Foos

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We’re seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.

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Writing Quotes by Laurie Foos

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

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 think it’s still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.

I’m not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious space and not ask myself what the novel is about or what my metaphors might mean because then, I think, you’re just dead in the water.

I’ve realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it’s all going to turn out.

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