Jon Pineda

thumb|Pineda in 2018 Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. Quotes Once I wrote poems, I found that I was able to piece together individual moments that would, I’d hoped, sometimes compound. The line was the most important thing to me—that and the music it produced. On how poetry writing eventually led to short stories and other works in “A Poet’s Novel: Jon Pineda talks LET’S NO ONE GET HURT” in Booklist Reader (2018 Mar 22) I think it’s relative to the story you’re writing. Some novels are filled with summary and some are filled with scenes. Others are a beautiful, confusing mix, of course. Ultimately, I wanted to write a novel that I’d want to read later. On choosing a story writing method in “7 QUESTIONS WITH JON PINEDA” in Hyphen Magazine (2018 Jun 7) Fiction is something that I've always wanted to write. I think that I give myself a break when I write fiction. And that's not to take anything away from people that write fiction, because I know that it's just as taxing, and there's so much involved with that. But for me, I write poems because I have to, and I write stories because I want to. When I'm writing stories, I tend to write stories when, like right now, I'm writing a lot of stories because I'm trying to get away from this collection of poems. It's just killing me. But, that's kind of what it is for me. On fiction versus poetry writing in “AN INTERVIEW WITH JON PINEDA” in Blackbird (2004 Jun 17) The setting, with all of its contradictions, is crucial. The land provides a deceptive promise of freedom, yet also presents itself as a burden. I’m drawn to these contradictions. They feed the emotional intensity of the novel… On placing his characters on a stretch of land in “Coming of Age With a Dog Named Marianne Moore” in the Chicago Review of Books (2018 Jun 1) External links Jon Pineda Category:Asian Americans Category:Poets from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:Living people Category:People from Charleston Category:People from Virginia