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"Once I wrote poems, I found that I was able to piece together individual moments that would, I’d hoped, sometimes compound. The line was the most important thing to me—that and the music it produced."
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"Fiction is something that Ive always wanted to write. I think that I give myself a break when I write fiction. And thats not to take anything away from people that write fiction, because I know that its just as taxing, and theres so much involved with that. But for me, I write poems because I have to, and I write stories because I want to. When Im writing stories, I tend to write stories when, like right now, Im writing a lot of stories because Im trying to get away from this collection of poems. Its just killing me. But, thats kind of what it is for me."
Fiction is something that Ive always wanted to write. I think that I give myself a break when I write fiction. And thats
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Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.
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"I think it’s relative to the story you’re writing. Some novels are filled with summary and some are filled with scenes. Others are a beautiful, confusing mix, of course. Ultimately, I wanted to write a novel that I’d want to read later."
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"The setting, with all of its contradictions, is crucial. The land provides a deceptive promise of freedom, yet also presents itself as a burden. I’m drawn to these contradictions. They feed the emotional intensity of the novel…"
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