Citas de Catherine Brady

• I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

  Catherine Brady

  Thinking, Doe, Human Nature

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• When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Somewhere Else, Perspective

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• I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colored crystals suddenly falls into a beautiful symmetrical pattern.

  Catherine Brady

  Beautiful, Fall, Stories

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• Chéjov solía cartearse con aspirantes a escritores, y una vez dio este consejo a Maxim Gorki cuando le animaba a recortar sus farragosas frases: "Cuando alguien gasta la menor cantidad de movimiento en una acción determinada, eso es gracia". El relato corto, por definición, encarna esta noción de gracia, porque requiere una compresión tan enérgica para lograr sus efectos.

  Catherine Brady

  Advice, Grace, Stories

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• I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a cycle that seems so deterministic, which was germane to the story's concerns.

  Catherine Brady

  Thinking, Interesting, Break Out

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• When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Interesting, Challenges

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• I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

  Catherine Brady

  Ugly, Pages, Quotation Marks

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• I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Past, Arbitrary

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• Lo que he descubierto a medida que he ido escribiendo historias es que cada vez se te cierra más el camino. Me siento realmente ahogado por lo que ya sé hacer, por el hecho de que mis obsesiones casi siempre montan un ataque furtivo, de modo que me encuentro escribiendo otra versión de lo mismo.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Stories, Way

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• For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.

  Catherine Brady

  Desire, Body, Way

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• It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.

  Catherine Brady

  Sex, Writing, Desire

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• I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this.

  Catherine Brady

  Thinking, Erotic, Brilliant

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• My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.

  Catherine Brady

  Mother, Sex, Philosophy

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• If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

  Catherine Brady

  Looks, Different, Goodness

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• You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.

  Catherine Brady

  Fall, Character, Pressure

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• You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.

  Catherine Brady

  Play, Empathy, Creative

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