Melissa Pritchard
Melissa Pritchard
Melissa Pritchard is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
everyday life messy pattern people reasons romances shaped
One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.
believe writing romance
I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
real heart yield
A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.
powerful romantic-love romance
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
sleep all-things
In death, as in sleep, I am all things.
art prayer literature
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.