Melissa Pritchard
Melissa Pritchard
Melissa Pritchard is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.