Carolina Quotes
I write fiction the way other people write in their journals. Fiction has always been how I try to make sense of my own life.
Lee Smith Carolinian
Source
"Southern Storyteller: An Interview with Author Lee Smith," Garden & Gun, August/September 2018
- form
- interview
- work
- Southern Storyteller
- year
- 2018
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“I write fiction the way other people write in their journals…” Lee Smith. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-9394B612EE. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/9394b612ee
More from Lee Smith
Slow down, honey. Read. Just because you like to write doesn’t mean you’ve got something to say. Learn about history and psychology and science and everything else in this big world. Don’t fall in love all the time. Don’t get married so fast. Life is going to be long.
When we first start writing, we’re writing the great dramas of our childhoods, our young adulthoods. We’re going for intensity. At my age now, I’m more interested in the long haul than the epiphany.
For me, it’s a way of enriching our own real lives, to be actually paying attention.