... not everyone will “get” your work, especially if you’re creating from the margins.

I think most writers can benefit from writing less.

Strangeness and playfulness are important and serious too!

There ought to be more work like this, stories that shower the reader with a raw presentation of stuff, and an even more raw perspective on how that stuff makes us feel.

I can’t stand a likeable lead character.

I crave getting utterly immersed, lost even, in a jungle of a book like this, one where these digressions fill whole chapters and add nothing to the plot but everything to the tone and themes.

A pig might eat a man.

You should exercise that creative muscle a little bit every day regardless of if you feel inspired or not.

Matthew F. Amati describes his style as "German expressionism filtered through a mouthful of saltines."

We want work that’s controversial, different, iconoclastic, radical, uncanny, strange.

We are pumped to meet and chat with everyone who stops by table #927 at AWP LA!

At the risk of sounding pretentious, I can’t not write. It’s simply not an option.

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When it’s hard, I try not to press too much, try to shut off my self-censor, and just keep trying to get words down.

Personally, I don’t want to give up on the cosmic tortoise, and I trust that once you read that section, you won’t either.

I think what keeps me going is I just enjoy being in my own head a little too much.

One's muse(s) are mercurial but do respond to regularly scheduled visiting hours at one's writing desk.

I don’t remember if I addressed the ocean in my rear view mirror all those years ago, but I know a part of me never left.

Collect images, snippets of conversation, chance encounters. Pay attention to the world. It is beautiful and strange.

”A First-Rate Material,” like much of Murata’s work, inspires questions about intimacy, existential dread, and conformity.

If you try to ignore the creative side of you, or put it on hold, you will eventually break open like a dam.

Trust your own opinion, lead your own riot, even if it is only a small riot.

To approach the darkness of life from a humorous lens is to reverse the power dynamic of reality.

Weird lit takes us beyond right and wrong, left and right, ones and zeroes.