American author (1979- )
Well, I started out as a poet with no interest in writing fiction at all. Everything I ever learned about writing until after my first novel was published was all in the realm of poetry. So they're very mixed up for me, and I've been accused of passing off poetry as fiction for awhile now.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
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interview, Rain Taxi, November 21, 2013
Longing for the fantastic is a human constant, I think.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
interview, Electric Lit, December 1, 2015
And of course in stories there is always fate. It goes by the name of foreshadowing and it is the emperor of everybody.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Radiance
But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Fairyland Series
Splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
I have no interest in writing a book about my abusive childhood or my awful marriage, stripped of the folklore and myth through which I saw those things even while they were happening. For me, those images are part of what happened, and part of what makes personal experience into stories that can touch others. It's more interesting to walk between the real world and the constructed world--and more, I don't really think there's much of a difference. Fiction is always fiction. It might as well have manticores in it as divorces.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
interview, Rain Taxi, November 21, 2013