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Steven Erikson

Canadian Novelist

Born: Oct 7, 1959

Amazing Art Experience People Subconscious You

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All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. Steven Erikson

Art Fear Made Self-Defense Gesture Sympathy Plenty Risk Small Small Amounts Vulnerable Intensely Artists Mechanisms Among Amount

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection. Steven Erikson

Too Much Affection Believe Difficult Too Easily Write Come Involve Particularly Forced Friendships Gestures Fiction Much Across Many

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core. Steven Erikson

Writing Down Feel Right Core

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay. Steven Erikson

You People Amazing Subconscious Group Other Others Out See Attention Observing Check Learn Close Close Attention Human Dynamics Might Much Paying Each Two Two People

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth. Steven Erikson

Life Experience Worth Own Extricate Life Experience Ongoing Written Idea Conceit Tale His Very Author Being Little Her

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