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Laura van den Berg

When I’m working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

Since childhood, I’ve been a fan of mysteries – ‘Nancy Drew’ lovers unite! – but ‘Vertigo’ struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

Not long after watching ‘The Passenger,’ I wrote the first lines of ‘The Isle of Youth,’ which concerns twin sisters who swap identities and become ensnared in the Miami underworld.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I’ve encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a moratorium on child narrators. Students love to write them, but children come laden with complications.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

When I was in grad school, my husband and I used to house sit for a couple in Harvard Square, so we have these amazing memories of great Cambridge summers.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I love Javier Marias; I love his novel ‘Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.’

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they’re detective stories.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I love noir, quite obviously.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story in some ways as like a train window: being able to watch the landscape pass for a certain amount of time. And then your stop arrives, and you have to leave.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best.

– Laura van den Berg

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