On becoming a writer : The seduction of the text / Francine Du Plessix Gray -- The importance of childhood / Joyce Carol Oates -- Looking for the spark / Joanna Trollope -- How to identify and nurture young writers / James Michener -- Touched by an angel / Mary Higgins Clark -- The leap from necessity to invention / John Keegan -- A real-life education / Susan Minot -- Emerging from under your rejection slips / Muriel Spark -- Being a product of your dwelling place / Nadine Gordimer -- Doing it for love / Erica Jong -- Raw material : Too happy for words / Alice McDermott -- Using my father's story / Craig Nova -- Between origins and art / George P. Pelecanos -- The writer as outlaw / Jayne Anne Phillips -- From memory to the imagination / Ntozake Shange -- Can Whites write about Blacks? / Scott Turow -- In praise of silence / John Edgar Wideman -- Bicultural, adrift, and wandering / Anita Desai -- On finding a Latino voice / Julia Alvarez -- Living in Irish, writing in English / John Banville -- Hunkering down : Holidays at the Keyboard Inn / Wendy Wasserstein -- The passionate researcher / Patricia Cornwell -- From packrat to historian / Stanley Karnow -- Climbing into another head / David McCullough -- Hunter of metaphors / Ray Bradbury -- Following the script / Edmund Morris -- Headbirths : bookish midwifery / Michael Korda -- Guided by voices : the work of a ghostwriter / David Chanoff
Old bottle, new wine : From will-of-the-wisp to full-blown novel / E.L. Doctorow -- Reincarnation, translation and adventure / Umberto Eco -- Master of my universe / Stanley Elkin -- Sounds and sensibilities / Ned Rorem -- Writer with scalpel / Richard Selzer -- A chronicle of the plague years / Reynolds Price -- On being a novice playwright / Cynthia Ozick -- Acting out, letting go / Gloria Naylor -- Pen names galore / Donald E. Westlake -- Summer lite / Barbara Mertz -- Facing the facts : History is their beat : the new journalist historians / David Halberstam -- A novel approach to reality : basing a story in facts / Dominick Dunne -- Making the truth believable / Tracy Kidder -- Describing the world as it is, not as it would be / Carl Sagan -- The political memoir : taking note of history / George P. Shultz -- President in search of a publisher / Jimmy Carter -- Biographer, get a life / Stacy Schiff -- From the clinic / Kay Redfield Jamison -- Notes from the road / Jonathan Raban -- Natural selections / E.O. Wilson -- Speaking up for the environment / Bill McKibben -- Looking back : The trouble with finishing / Frances FitzGerald -- The hardest critics / Carol Shields -- Literary executions / Julian Barnes -- Taking it all back / Jane Smiley -- Writer, be afraid / Michael Chabon -- In search of the next idea / Ward Just.
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