It can’t be said too emphatically that the way to learn how to write is to write.—Kent Haruf, interviewed by Jim Nashold

We were all born with the ability to imagine and dream endlessly, terrifyingly, gorgeously, wildly. Our job, it seems to me, is to work mercilessly on finding the truest language to bring out whatever it is that needs to be brought out.—Andre Dubus III, interviewed by John McNally

To invent a credible and sympathetic character with the abstract tools of language is a tall order. The reader must know from the start with whom he is keeping company.—Susan Richards Shreve, interviewed by Katherine Perry

Art makes its own meaning. It evokes the connections between us, an dthe existence of a dimiension bigger than us, a dimension that holds time inside it, which is something we cannot understand.—Jayne Anne Phillips, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

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