Roy Kesey Quotes

• The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to do with this weird thing I do every now and then. Like everyone else, as a reader there are certain things that really rub me the wrong way in fiction - pet bugbears, let's call them.

  Roy Kesey

  Long, Pet, Fiction

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• Deberíamos preocuparnos por las cuestiones éticas en la misma medida que los demás. Nunca he pretendido colar ningún tipo de sermón en una historia; no tengo nada que predicar y, además, ese tipo de cosas siempre han tenido poco éxito en la ficción.

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  Ethical Questions, Play, Degrees

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• I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it coming, and I did intentionally not cut it from some of the final drafts. In other words, I'm not particularly interested in encouraging readers to read certain stories that way, but I want to make sure that route's accessible should anyone be so inclined.

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  Reading, Cutting, Political

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• When you spend so much time trying to father well, and failing, and trying again, and hopefully failing better, it's going to seep into your work. And when you give yourself permission to explore the grottiest bits of your psyche (like Louis CK) (who totally stole that move from me) (not really), to exaggerate the edge of the rustiest blades of your IRL mind, you'll occasionally come up with something that holds real power.

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  Father, Real, Moving

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• I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The dad is really going to take it on the chin in this one!" Not in terms of any given story, and certainly not in terms of the collection as a whole.

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  Dad, Character, Hands

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• Lo que me gusta de esta forma de organizar las cosas es que cada historia tiene casi pleno dominio sobre su propio espacio, pero todas ellas están colgadas de una sola cuerda: la voz poco definida antes mencionada. Así, la colección se aleja de la soberanía y pasa de la federación a, supongo, la alianza. ¿O tal vez llamar a cada historia una casa separada en una sola calle? ¿O que todo es una hilera de bares de mala muerte frente a un muelle? Qué demonios, llamemos a la lectura de la colección un paseo por un pub, pero con palabras.

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  Reading, Past, Voice

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• The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engaging stories goes first, the longer of the two goes at the end, and everything else goes in the middle.

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  Light, Two, Principles

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• Por alguna razón, hasta ahora ha sido importante para mí no escribir ese tipo de colección. Lo que significa que me he pasado meses jugando al tres en raya, intentando ordenar los relatos de modo que los que son similares en algún aspecto (dicción, postura narrativa, ambientación, trama) estén separados por otros que no lo son.

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  Writing, Mean, Order

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• Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's because our "voicier" writers hew so closely to one given set of dictional tics that we as readers can't read the books all the way through in a single sitting, because if we did, the stories and their narrators would all start to bleed together.

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  Book, Together, Narrators

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• You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension and power condensed into each piece, all well and good.

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  People, Stories, Pieces

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• Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

  Roy Kesey

  Stories, Short Story, Reins

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• Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.

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  Thinking, Hands, Anxiety

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• If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap between what happened and what we remember - you're going to end up thinking (obliquely or otherwise) about what it means to act ethically, and I think that's all to the good.

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  Mean, Thinking, Remember You

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