“Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of “The Collected Stories” by Grace Paley.

If we could learn everything we needed to know about writing fiction by seeing it masterfully executed, we could just stay in bed and read Chekhov.

The answer to how important a master of fine arts degree is to becoming a fiction writer is, of course, not at all.

No one should ever go into debt to study creative writing.

If you wind up boring yourself, you can pretty much bank on the fact that you’re going to bore your reader.

As far as I’m concerned, writer’s block is a myth.

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it.”