Antonya Nelson

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1961-01-06

Antonya Nelson is an American writer known for short stories, novels, and teaching in creative writing programs. Her fiction has appeared in major literary magazines and anthologies.

Quotes by Antonya Nelson

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
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There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
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I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.
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Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
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My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.
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I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
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