I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen. Stacey D'Erasmo More Quotes by Stacey D'Erasmo More Quotes From Stacey D'Erasmo On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space. Stacey D'Erasmo my-life work time life The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate. Stacey D'Erasmo memory moments time remember Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. Stacey D'Erasmo corrupt king royalty divine One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was. Stacey D'Erasmo she only being way The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn. Stacey D'Erasmo center teddy intimacy friendship The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. Stacey D'Erasmo moment perspective ambition beautiful What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings. Stacey D'Erasmo human me messy human-beings
