Quotes by Paul Park

About Paul Park:

Paul Claiborne Park is an American science fiction author and fantasy author. He teaches a course in reading and writing science fiction at Williams College. He has also taught at the Clarion West writing workshop and the Clarion workshop and was an instructor at Clarion West in 2011.[citation needed]
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The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

Paul Park

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

Paul Park

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 ...

Paul Park

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

Paul Park

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

Paul Park

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

Paul Park

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

Paul Park

Author Bio

  • NamePaul Park
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist