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Laura van den Berg

Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I’ve always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, ‘What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us;’ other stories that didn’t make it into the collection; and several failed novel openings.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

When I’m absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I’ve drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, ‘This is how I see the world.’ And it seems my sight is off-kilter and kind of strange, but I come by that naturally; I’m not consciously pushing toward a particular point on the continuum.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I’m such a first-person writer.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don’t.

– Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg

I think that one thing about teaching is you’re trying to communicate your thoughts about a work to a group of people who may or may not share that sentiment. This has forced me to become a lot more articulate about what I respond to and what I don’t respond to in fiction.

– Laura van den Berg

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