Quotes from Laurie Foos

When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

Perhaps we know that one day we will have to release what we are tired of feeding and caring for, when the song of the trees is all we can hope to hear.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.