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Carol Anshaw Quotes

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Carol Anshaw
Plot Lines, Stories, Easy
Carol Anshaw, Merrill Maguire Skaggs (2012). “Aquamarine”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

Carol Anshaw
Hate, Receiving, Faces
"Carol Anshaw And Stephen McCauley Discuss Gay Literature". Interview with Stephen McCauley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

Carol Anshaw
Mean, Thinking, Simple

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Carol Anshaw
Pet, Sorrow, Contracts
Carol Anshaw (2012). “Lucky in the Corner: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

Carol Anshaw
Contemporary Fiction, Voice, Seductive

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

Carol Anshaw
Fun, Stress, Romance
Carol Anshaw (2012). “Carry the One: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

Carol Anshaw
Book, People, Goes On

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Anshaw
Character, Gay, Assumption

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

Carol Anshaw
Reading, Writing, Conspiracy
"Carol Anshaw And Stephen McCauley Discuss Gay Literature". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

Carol Anshaw
Thinking, Realizing, Holes

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

Carol Anshaw
Book, Writing, Way

Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?

Carol Anshaw
Memories, Years, Trying

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