“ We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function. Paul Park
“ That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal. Paul Park
“ 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 sequen… Paul Park
“ Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose. Paul Park
