Ten Questions for Victor LaValle
“I had to not only transform into different people and places, but to also find myself within both of those.” —Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women
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“I had to not only transform into different people and places, but to also find myself within both of those.” —Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women
“Read more! Listen more! See more! Feel more! Take better notes!” —Laird Hunt, author of This Wide Terraqueous World
“I write when I want to say something to someone in particular—but can’t.” —Aurora Mattia author of The Fifth Wound
The author of The White Mosque considers how writing holds space for the accidental, the random, and the stray.
The author of The White Mosque charts the ambience of literary worlds.
“Poetry is impossible, but it is not difficult.” —Olena Kalytiak Davis, author of Late Summer Ode
“This book has its own life force. All you have to do is allow it to come together.” —Marwa Helal, author of Ante body
“I am a fitful writer: long periods of not writing followed by intense engagement.” —Dana Levin, author of Now Do You Know Where You Are
“To be a writer, the best thing someone can do, in my opinion, is read. Read everything.” —Eloisa Amezcua, author of Fighting Is Like a Wife
“I hope everyone who writes begins by recognizing their own value and the value of the very act of their having chosen to write.” —Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier), author of Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina