Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one. Darin Strauss faithissueprivate Change image and share on social
My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock. Darin Strauss alfredhitchcockknowledge Change image and share on social
I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school. Darin Strauss chinesedeliverdepress share on social
I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them. Darin Strauss havejobmenial Change image and share on social
What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city. Darin Strauss citydenverfeel Change image and share on social
The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom. Darin Strauss choosefreedominterest Change image and share on social
Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious? Darin Strauss addressaudaciouscontemporary Change image and share on social
What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each. Darin Strauss difficultfactfind share on social
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction? Darin Strauss borrowfictionmemoirist Change image and share on social
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble. Darin Strauss amendbudgecrazy Change image and share on social
