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Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Address Audacious Contemporary Fiction Much Seems Small Small Things Things Too Too Much Try Ways Why Why Not

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To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Arguing Beyond Eternal Had Like Literature Lot Say Seemed Significance Torture Us

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If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Borrow Borrowing Few Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction Novelist Successful Techniques Tricks

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A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Act Calls Crowded Equipment Faces First Guys Making Pads Players Policeman Radio Scribbling Supporting Tragedy Witnesses

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I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Compelled Feel Guess Own People Personal Share Stories Story Write You

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My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Alfred Hitchcock Before First Hitchcock Knowledge Love Sight Trains

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Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Ambition Away Because Boost Brooklyn Choking Community Feeling Get Giving Hands He Identical Lives Many Perhaps Slide Sometimes Sustaining Throat Too Up Very Want Writer Writers You Your

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I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Boy Closest Closest Thing Five Minutes Mojo Peace Thing Twin

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For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Actual Begin Common Etc Excessive Fiction Instead Introducing Metaphysical Mistakes Most Narratives Off Often Place Speculation Start Story Students Teach Third Until Way Wrong Wrong Place

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Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Broken Good Good Reason Like Reason Rules Should Sometimes Start Trouble Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1970

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