Emily Barton Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.

  Emily Barton

  Book, Mean, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

• It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

  Emily Barton

  Book, Years, Berating

  Source: therumpus.net

• I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.

  Emily Barton

  Fashion, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.

  Emily Barton

  Book, Plot, Development

  Source: therumpus.net

• I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.

  Emily Barton

  Book, People, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

• A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

  Emily Barton

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

• There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.

  Emily Barton

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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