Steve Erickson Believe Quotations

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.