Bob Shacochis Quotes

• Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.

  Bob Shacochis

  Jobs, Trying, Structure

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• With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

  Bob Shacochis

  Blood, Sweat, Iron

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• I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

  Bob Shacochis

  Art, Glasses, Elbows

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• Para cualquier artista que crea personas imaginarias, el arte es como habitar la vida y la mente de un niño de siete años con amigos imaginarios y acontecimientos imaginarios y gracia imaginaria y tragedia imaginaria. En ese universo alternativo, los personajes tienen bastante libre albedrío. Sé que está ocurriendo en mi mente y sólo en mi mente, pero parece que tienen su propia capacidad para forjar sus destinos. Así que no tiro por nada. Si los personajes son vulnerables es simplemente porque son muy humanos.

  Bob Shacochis

  Art, Children, Character

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others.

  Bob Shacochis

  Soul, Secret, Sometimes

  Bob Shacochis (2014). “The Woman Who Lost Her Soul”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.

  Bob Shacochis

  Letting Go, Fun, Writing

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• Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

  Bob Shacochis

  Writing, Discovery, Joy

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• Todo el tiempo me preguntan: "¿No se siente muy bien terminar la novela?". Y la respuesta es: "No". Es una especie de pérdida detener un proyecto de 10 años, que es un proyecto imaginario en el sentido de que es una obra de mi imaginación. Las personas con las que he vivido durante 10 años en mi imaginación han desaparecido. Perderlos es más bien un proceso luctuoso, no es un alivio.

  Bob Shacochis

  Loss, People, Imagination

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character and observing a character - and that's what I do with a lot of characters in my books. And then my imagination eats them alive.

  Bob Shacochis

  Real, Libro, Personaje

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time they made decisions about what to do or how to behave that I had no idea were coming down the pike. As I would sit and try to inhabit a character, they themselves in my imagination would have quite a bit of free will.

  Bob Shacochis

  Character, Imagination, Decision

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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