Writing True

This was tweeted out by someone earlier today, and I liked it so much I'm posting it here so I can always find it again. Write what you really think and mean, not what you think you should think and not what you thought you would think and not what you hope it will mean, …

Authors in Conversation at Newsweek

Just thought some of you might be interested in this. It's a roundtable with several authors (Susan Orlean, Lawrence Block, Elizabeth Strout, Robert Caro, Kurt Andersen) in the July 13, 2009 issue of Newsweek: The Write Stuff Holden Caulfield had it right. The test of a great book, he said in The Catcher in the …