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. Carol Anshaw More Quotes by Carol Anshaw More Quotes From Carol Anshaw I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face. Carol Anshaw receiving hate faces 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. Carol Anshaw plot-lines stories easy 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. Carol Anshaw simple mean thinking Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow. Carol Anshaw contracts sorrow pet Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury. Carol Anshaw romance stress fun 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. Carol Anshaw goes-on book people When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. Carol Anshaw assumption gay character I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. Carol Anshaw conspiracy reading writing I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole. Carol Anshaw holes realizing thinking 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. Carol Anshaw writing book way 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? Carol Anshaw trying memories years