Elizabeth Strout: ‘I learnt a long time ago to just sit down and take whatever emotion was most pressing in me and transpose it into a character. Then the scene would have life to it, as opposed to feeling wooden.”
[in an interview with ‘Culture’ magazine, part of ‘The Sunday Times’ newspaper, April 30, 2017]

[photo: Dario Lasagni]
Read my reviews of My Name is Lucy Barton and Anything is Possible, both by Elizabeth Strout. Read more about Strout at her website.
‘Anything is Possible’ by Elizabeth Strout [UK: Viking]
See how these other authors write:-
Mary Gaitskill
Hanya Yanagihara
Bill Clegg
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