Carol Anshaw quotes:

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.