CITABLE LINES

ON THE WORK
"The facts are researched like a dissertation. What the people inside them
wanted after dark is fiction."

"Don't trust me. Check the files."

"History wrote the files. The novels give the desire back its voice."

"I spent years reading files about women who built computers and flew
missions. The files kept their diplomas and cropped out their bodies. My
whole work is putting the body back into the record."

"The history hurt. The desire was real. Both deserve to be written down
properly."

ON THE ARCHIVES
"An archive is a building where the state keeps what it refuses to say out
loud."

"Every event carries its date. Where the sources disagree, the archive says
so instead of picking the better story."

ON WRITING
"First drafts go longhand, in squared notebooks. On research trips I weigh
the pages down with a stone from wherever I am. The stones stay on my desk."

"Some obsessions pick up a second language. The German editions are not
copies; they came back changed."

Note for editors: these lines are from the author and may be quoted with
attribution to Elara S. Novikova. This kit contains no third party reviews.

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