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I'm my own ideal reader in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
Steve Erickson
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Steve Erickson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 20
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Michael Erickson
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Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.
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In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.
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Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.
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When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.
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I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.
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Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love and sex and identity and memory and history and redemption.
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The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.
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The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be difficult.
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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.
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It became inescapable that as conservatives were wrong about people of color, they were also wrong about women. They were wrong about gay people. The only individual freedoms they seemed to get exercised about were the freedom to make a profit and the freedom to own a gun.
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I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
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For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.
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My own personal experience has become more first-hand.
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I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
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While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.
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The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.
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I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
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Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.
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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.
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It wouldn't have occurred to me that while this old white man, which is to say me, was voting for Hillary Clinton, white women were choosing an overt misogynist [Donald Trump] over the first woman president. Someone will have to explain that one to me someday.
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