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Paul Park Quotes & Sayings

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Famous Quotes By Paul Park

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Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose. — Paul Park

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This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found. — Paul Park

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And you're disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story. — Paul Park

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Sometimes you've just got to let them scream, right? — Paul Park

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Corruption hates what is not corrupt. — Paul Park

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Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new! — Paul Park

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Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.' — Paul Park

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Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people. — Paul Park

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Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing. — Paul Park

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That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal. — Paul Park

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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function. — Paul Park

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There's nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said. — Paul Park

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I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely. — Paul Park

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The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led. — Paul Park

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The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be. — Paul Park

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I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress.
One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine. — Paul Park