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Re-enchanting... The Human Story - Marilynne Robinson

Re-Enchanting

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The Importance of Not Knowing What Happens Next

I've always made a great rule of not knowing what will happen next. That's how I wrote Gilead and then then Gilead controls a great deal about what happens next. And, well, it's a discipline that I hope has become more automatic than simply conscious, you know, consciousness of words. But that is a, you know,. a problem in fiction is the tendency it's like the, youknow, museum memories the painters,you know, they self takes their vitality out of it, you know.

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