Kirstin Valdez Quade
"We get to know our characters the way we get to know the other people in our lives: by spending time with them, by seeing how they interact with others and how they function under pressure, by learning how they see themselves and how they want to be seen."
— Kirstin Valdez Quade
"I love the short story: I love its flexibility, its distillation of language, the pressure it exerts on the moment."
— Kirstin Valdez Quade