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You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

Tobias Wolff

Information

Writing

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

P. G. Wodehouse

Writing

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

Walter Jon Williams

College

Writing

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Tennessee Williams

Man

Writing

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.