Master class : lessons from leading writers / Nancy Bunge.

Something my life can teach other people / Sandra Gilbert
You see beauty and you want to share it / Allen Ginsberg
We should try to be as good as Shakespeare / Donald Hall
Poet comes out of the people / Etheridge Knight
Each act of writing becomes a whole new experience / Clarence Major
There's nothing like the literary imagination / James Alan McPherson
I grew up in a very rich and exotic world / N. Scott Momaday
You need to write to be a writer / Kit Reed
I place a lot of faith in that private searchlight / Alix Kates Shulman
You've got to make the decisions yourself, if you're an artist / William Stafford
If you're only a copy of a person, you aren't going to write very well / Wallace Stegner
We are creative creatures / Ruth Stone
Good writing isn't about easy things / Diane Wakoski
Have poetry be a practice / Anne Waldman
I don't know whether you can do justice to yourself without doing justice to the world / Richard Wilbur
Hardest and loneliest profession / Richard Yates
Writer works to give the reader a true experience / Helen Yglesias
I want it to be true / Marvin Bell
Getting it as right as it can be got / Ivan Doig
People with curiosity are always right out there / Jim Harrison
With each book, I'm learning how to write that book / Margot Livesey
It's this impulse toward order, the pleasure of discovering design / Bobbie Ann Mason
I get curious about a group of characters and I start investigating them / Larry McMurtry
I inhabit each character / Sue Miller
Those moments of clarity are little gems / Kyoko Mori
I think that one should exist trying to be aware of as much as possible / Thylias Moss
I just think I'm really lucky / W.S. Penn
Nothing is more moving to me than what happens in the average life / Scott Turow
Acquiescence to the unknown allows writers to stay vital / Katherine Vaz.