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“Andre Dubus’s stories question the status quo,” Ann Beattie writes. “Actually, they catch it and break its neck, even those times they ostensibly put it back together.”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/20/what-is-andre-dubus-doing-anyway/ …

“My friends and I worshipped literature. We thought everything we would ever know or care about or be ­devoted to was to be found in literature.” —Vivian Gornickhttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6343/vivian-gornick-the-art-of-memoir-no-2-vivian-gornick …

“I am convinced that the camps—all of them—are a negative school; you can’t even spend an hour in one without being depraved. The camps never gave, and never could give, anyone anything positive. The camps act by depraving everyone.”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-things-i-learned-in-the-gulag/ …

“The history of literature is ­accounts of consciousness that wouldn’t hold up in a court of law but do hold up on the page and in our hearts and minds.” —Hilton Alshttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7178/hilton-als-the-art-of-the-essay-no-3-hilton-als …

“How does the thing in my head become the thing that you are now reading? Who is walking down that dark hallway, turning on all the lights? Art is mostly incomprehensible, and yet it exists. There are ways to make, but how does one begin the making?”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/20/marlene-dumass-metamorphoses/ …

In this week’s Poetry Rx, @KavehAkbar recommends a poem whose last couplet is “about as close as a poem can come to pulling you into a giant bear hug.”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/21/poetry-rx-a-poem-not-about-sex/ …

“I wasn’t trying to write literature, I just put it down on paper to gain a foothold, to get a grip on my life.” —Herta Müllerhttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6328/herta-muller-the-art-of-fiction-no-225-herta-muller …

Don’t worry: we’ve done your homework for you.https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/21/five-summer-book-reports/ …

“To get to my body, my doctor has to get to my character. He has to go through my soul. He doesn’t only have to go through my anus.”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/19/one-word-castration/ …

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.” —William Styronhttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5114/william-styron-the-art-of-fiction-no-5-william-styron …

“I didn’t have to throw anything away, because I didn’t have anything to begin with.” —Herta Müllerhttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6328/herta-muller-the-art-of-fiction-no-225-herta-muller …

“What I enjoy about fiction is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.” —Stanley Elkinhttps://theparisreview.org/interviews/3712/stanley-elkin-the-art-of-fiction-no-61-stanley-elkin …

“When it’s good it’s like a dream, I’m just working, and I’m not conscious of myself at all as a writer.” —Paula Foxhttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1/paula-fox-the-art-of-fiction-no-181-paula-fox …

“I regard my comic writing as serious.” —S. J. Perelmanhttps://theparisreview.org/interviews/4536/s-j-perelman-the-art-of-fiction-no-31-s-j-perelman …

“I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.” —Mary McCarthyhttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4618/mary-mccarthy-the-art-of-fiction-no-27-mary-mccarthy …

“I write prose with a poet’s head.” —Luc Santehttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6441/luc-sante-the-art-of-nonfiction-no-9-luc-sante …

“Writing was important to me in earlier years because it was a refuge and it was a place where I was figuring things out.” —John Edgar Widemanhttps://theparisreview.org/interviews/422/john-edgar-wideman-the-art-of-fiction-no-171-john-edgar-wideman …