Author Q&A: Mary Miller (Biloxi)
"There’s nothing wrong with writing when you feel like it, so long as you feel like it on a somewhat regular basis."
Interviews with writers.
"There’s nothing wrong with writing when you feel like it, so long as you feel like it on a somewhat regular basis."
"I think if more adults were in touch with their internal worlds, and proud of this fact, there’d be much less conflict in the external world."
"I marvel at the accomplishments of other writers and feel called to write back in response, which is the whole reason I started writing in the first place. That’s the most helpful thing, and the most constant."
"That’s why prisoners are able to write, despite the oppression, the depravation, the discrimination. They’re able to write because they can imagine community."
How did Tennessee Williams' legal knowledge influence his work?
"That book might make you die a little and don’t forget to eat durian ice cream after reading it."
"I want to believe that reading tunes the mind, that empathy results from the connections forged between a reader and a character..."
"I think the process should be an expression of the product, and vice versa."
"You have to be willing to walk right up to the line that divides emotion and melodrama."
"Playing bad guitar solos is satisfying in a way that writing bad short stories is not."