People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
Fred D'AguiarThere's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.
Fred D'AguiarBecause I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.
Fred D'Aguiar