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I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Definitely Domestic Either Identified Identity Isolated Issues Maybe Mexico More Myself New New Mexico Realism Region School Someone Southern Stylistic Think Too Very

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I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Characters Comparison Extremity Forcing Illuminate Like More Normal Psychological Way

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I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Between Dramas Elevate Frame Give Groups Insight Maybe Minor Moments More Operate People Poems Same Short Short Stories Single Small Smaller Some Stories Think Those Ways You I Think

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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Being Capable Celebrating Form Groups Individual Little Novel Often Pair People Short Short Story Social Sort Story Think

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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Any Characters Exactly Fiction Guess Having Hesitant Indulge Kinds Labeled Life Little Make Person Reader Resist Risk Sentimental Something Sometimes Stretch Tell Things Think Those Want Why Work You I Think

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I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Capacity Earn Moved Reader Want

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I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: About Always Approach Craft Energy Fiction Gives Hearing Just Like Listening Me My Own Notes Other Own People Taking Talk Way Weird Work Writers Writing

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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Commitment Does Draft Early Embrace Ever First Guess Hardly Impulse Most Original Ought Really Revise Say Should Something Thing Trust Which Work Would Write You Your

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I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Around Away Been Beginner Best Bit Block Every Give Level Like Matter People Really Session Something Take Talks Think Whether Workshops Writer You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1961

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