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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Function Memory

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Character Purpose Story

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Disappointed Love Story

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress.One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Build Emotion Engine Machine Redundancy Story

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Author Heroine

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Parasite Vampire

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

~ Paul Park

Paul Park Betrayal Own Life Writing
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