Steve Erickson
Steve Erickson
Stephen Michael Erickson, pen name Steve Erickson, is an American novelist, essayist and critic. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, and is considered an important representative of the Avantpop movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 April 1950
CountryUnited States of America
writing needs ends
In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.
writing want novel
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
writing instinct made
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
water swim shadow
By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.
inspiration believe writing
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.
congratulations self expression
If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.
dream memories
a dream is only a memory of the future
may pages lasts
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.
became confess distinct half longer music occupied popular sat strip table territory timeline vicious waiting
For half a century, the Sunset Strip was the asphalt timeline of American popular music. My most distinct memory, from more years ago than I'll confess to, is waiting for a table at the Olde World, which occupied a wedge of territory at Sunset and Holloway Drive, where the daiquiris became more vicious the longer you sat in the sun.
bump chance festival names whose work writers
For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.
filmmaker whether
It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.
activities became birth characters driven incidental instant movies notion stopped
The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.
believe black collective documents genes lore passed since white whom
White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.
art
Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.