Ten Questions for Maureen Sun

“My ambition isn’t to write something that lets you shut out the world.” —Maureen Sun, author of The Sisters K
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“My ambition isn’t to write something that lets you shut out the world.” —Maureen Sun, author of The Sisters K
“Every book I read I annotate, trying to figure out the logic of the story.” —Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
“The task of the novelist, I think, consists of treating life as a research project.” —Nicolás Medina Mora
“I don’t hold myself to a rigid writing schedule but instead listen to my mind, body, and heart and write accordingly.” —Alison C. Rollins, author of Black Bell
“Above all, be brave!” —Sheila Carter-Jones, author of Every Hard Sweetness
The author of Short War ponders the ways research can deepen a fiction project—and how to know when enough is enough.
“Get ready for about fifteen drafts.” —Garrard Conley, author of All the World Beside
“Trust yourself; if you can manage that, the writing will come.” —Heather McCalden, author of The Observable Universe: An Investigation
“The computer I write on is never allowed to go online.” —Margot Livesey, author of The Road From Belhaven
“By the time I finished I actually felt that the topic had chosen me.” —Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors