I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
Rivka GalchenThe writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.
Rivka GalchenWe need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in-a way to signal those lies that could more accurately be understood as dreams.
Rivka GalchenBut one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I canโt help people eat cereal any longer.
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