Paul Park Quotations

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.