I’ve started to realize that while sometimes I can’t help worrying, sometimes I use it as a diversion. What’s one vice you wish you could give up? I also needed that time to evolve, so I had greater perspective and understanding when it came time for the last drafts. I have this little mantra I tell myself: “It takes the time it takes.” This book very much needed that time. But it was a lot of work over a long period of time. Creating this story has been one of the greatest joys in my life. My upcoming novel started as a short story in 2006.
Which of your books was the hardest to write?
Writing didn’t seem like something I could do until much, much later when I learned about writing first drafts and using the cut and paste function to put my thoughts in order after the fact. I was frustrated that the beautiful story in my head amounted to a messy pile of loose-leaf paper with eraser holes and arrows everywhere. I had terrible handwriting, and my thoughts (still) don’t come out in any linear way. I couldn’t figure out where to start, and I’d lose my train of thought in the time it took me to finish scribbling out a sentence. It was a plot I’d kept running in my head whenever I didn’t want to be where I was, so the story was complicated, and I knew a lot about the characters. However, I’ve always been a daydreamer, and I do remember being about six or seven and trying to write down a story about a princess on an adventure. I didn’t know I wanted to be a writer until my early twenties. What is the earliest memory you have of wanting to be a writer? I had the pleasure of catching up with Allie for 20 Questions, where we spoke about the origins of her writing dreams, creative anxiety, which books she has been loving lately, and why needless worrying is a vice we could all probably afford to give up in the near future (universe permitting, of course) - and so much more. Currently, Larkin is gearing up to release her fourth novel, The People We Keep, later this year. Her nonfiction essays have been included in the dog anthology I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship, alongside Chelsea Handler and Annabelle Gurwitch, and Author in Progress, a how-to guide for Writer’s Digest Books. Her short fiction has been published in the Summerset Review and Slice Magazine.
20 Questions is a Q&A interview series with musicians, authors, and everyone in between, celebrating experiences both shared and individual in the messy game of being human.Īllie Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Stay, Why Can’t I Be You, and Swimming for Sunlight.
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