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.

  Carol Anshaw

  Plot Lines, Stories, Easy

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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Carol Anshaw

  Thinking, Realizing, Holes

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• 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

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• 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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