Robert Boswell
Robert Boswell
Robert Boswell is an American short story writer and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.
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I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.
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I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.
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You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.
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What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?
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Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
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Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
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Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.