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Kirstin Valdez Quade Quotes

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Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer.

United States
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Short story writers

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When I read, if I don’t know where a story is set, I always feel unmoored. The same is true for my writing: Until I place my story in a specific place, I can’t get my footing in the world…

I love the short story: I love its flexibility, its distillation of language, the pressure it exerts on the moment. A story demands that the reader look closely. And yet, despite the intensity and constraints, a story can be surprisingly capacious…

It has absolutely been romanticized; it shows up in literature and art. I think there is a sort of magic to it that draws people and yet I think the reality of it is that it's an extraordinarily complicated place.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kirstin Valdez Quade (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.