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Adviceexpand_moreWriting is a subversive activity that exempts you from the rules.
Always know the creative life begins again and again.
“Watch your purse, dear,” Aunt Florie whispers.
It was the sixties, and I was in
college and incredibly restless.
I am always hungry & wanting to have sex. This is a fact.
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Liza Donnelly
New cartoons from Arnold Levin, Mira Scharf, David Sipress, and more!
New cartoons from Glen LeLievre, Liza Donnelly, and more!
Kim Warp
Mary Lawton
We are teachers so maybe we can help something change, tap into something.
An in-depth audio interview with Ann Beattie on her writing.
Frank Conroy
Audio clips of Pultizer Prize winner Jennifer Egan on her work.
Do the work. Every day. Take a step back and see if you love it.
She wondered if tomorrow would fill her with so strange a stirring.
Your writing may need to be ruthless or amoral to be original.
My grandfather has a space where the tip of his thumb should be.
Stories are places to live. We live in stories. What we are is stories.
I didn’t know I would be any good. But I knew I wanted to be a poet.
The rich man adorns himself and the elegant man gets dressed.
The photo portraits express the unguarded essence of each author.
Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
“You look like you’re about to fall over,” he says. “Are you all right?”
I don’t know if I’ve written anything without changing the details.
’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike.
Gail Godwin
When I walked in, the kids applauded. They were like, “The poet’s back!”
What right does an American mutt like me have to depict in fiction the lives of a Salvadoran family?
