J. Ryan Stradal: Writers on Writing
Award-winning and best-selling author J. Ryan Stradal shares the most important thing he has learned about writing and how it helps him in this short interview. Read More “J. Ryan Stradal: Writers on Writing”
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William Finnegan: Writers on Writing
“If you can make that imaginative leap, which is much more difficult than it sounds, you can land in the zone where things are really getting across.” Read More “William Finnegan: Writers on Writing”
Meg Howrey: Writers on Writing
“I want to write a little bit more like a monster. It requires some practice in finding the right beasts to deploy. It takes a village of Godzillas.” Read More “Meg Howrey: Writers on Writing”
Téa Obreht: Writers on Writing
“It took me a long time, and many false starts, to find my way to a project where I felt that same synthesis of subject and psychological state again.” Read More “Téa Obreht: Writers on Writing”
Benjamin Kunkel: Writers on Writing
“You’re not as good as you suspect you are when you’re happiest with yourself, and you’re not as bad as you fear you are when you’re most disgusted with your prose.” Read More “Benjamin Kunkel: Writers on Writing”
Leslie Jamison: Writers on Writing
“No beautiful writing comes from an impossibly perfect world; it all comes from this one: cluttered, obligated, distracted.” Read More “Leslie Jamison: Writers on Writing”
Clara Bingham: Writers on Writing
“You’re climbing Everest by looking down at your feet, not looking up at the mountain. The second I look up, I wouldn’t be able to breathe, and it would all be too daunting.” Read More “Clara Bingham: Writers on Writing”
Kaitlyn Greenidge: Writers on Writing
“[Writing] takes a long time. There is no rushing it and the work exists on its own timetable, outside of your own personal deadlines.” Read More “Kaitlyn Greenidge: Writers on Writing”
Tom Leopold: Writers on Writing
“The more specific you are in writing, the more general an audience can react to it.” Read More “Tom Leopold: Writers on Writing”
Alexandra Kleeman: Writers on Writing
“Honoring the separation between the private activity of writing and the public activity of being a writer has helped me structure my days.” Read More “Alexandra Kleeman: Writers on Writing”