Master class : lessons from leading writers /
Bunge, Nancy L.,
Master class : lessons from leading writers / Nancy Bunge. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Something my life can teach other people / You see beauty and you want to share it / We should try to be as good as Shakespeare / Poet comes out of the people / Each act of writing becomes a whole new experience / There's nothing like the literary imagination / I grew up in a very rich and exotic world / You need to write to be a writer / I place a lot of faith in that private searchlight / You've got to make the decisions yourself, if you're an artist / If you're only a copy of a person, you aren't going to write very well / We are creative creatures / Good writing isn't about easy things / Have poetry be a practice / I don't know whether you can do justice to yourself without doing justice to the world / Hardest and loneliest profession / Writer works to give the reader a true experience / I want it to be true / Getting it as right as it can be got / People with curiosity are always right out there / With each book, I'm learning how to write that book / It's this impulse toward order, the pleasure of discovering design / I get curious about a group of characters and I start investigating them / I inhabit each character / Those moments of clarity are little gems / I think that one should exist trying to be aware of as much as possible / I just think I'm really lucky / Nothing is more moving to me than what happens in the average life / Acquiescence to the unknown allows writers to stay vital / Sandra Gilbert -- Allen Ginsberg -- Donald Hall -- Etheridge Knight -- Clarence Major -- James Alan McPherson -- N. Scott Momaday -- Kit Reed -- Alix Kates Shulman -- William Stafford -- Wallace Stegner -- Ruth Stone -- Diane Wakoski -- Anne Waldman -- Richard Wilbur -- Richard Yates -- Helen Yglesias -- Marvin Bell -- Ivan Doig -- Jim Harrison -- Margot Livesey -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Larry McMurtry -- Sue Miller -- Kyoko Mori -- Thylias Moss -- W.S. Penn -- Scott Turow -- Katherine Vaz.
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Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers gathers more than two decades of wisdom from twenty-nine accomplished authors. It offers previously unpublished interviews along with freshly edited versions of ten interviews from Nancy Bunge's well-received previous collection, Finding the Words. The first section, Theory, incorporates interviews which document the golden age of writing programs in which authors with a strong sense of social and cultural responsibility taught as seriously as they wrote. These conversations delve into the writers' philosophies and teaching methods. The second section.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
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2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781587296413 (electronic bk.) 1587296411 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt20m5tfm JSTOR
Authorship.
Authorship--Study and teaching.
Authors--Interviews.
Art d'écrire.
Art d'écrire--Étude et enseignement.
authorship.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Authorship.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Study & Teaching.
Authors.
Authorship.
Authorship--Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Interviews.
PN147 / .B795 2005eb
808/.02
Master class : lessons from leading writers / Nancy Bunge. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Something my life can teach other people / You see beauty and you want to share it / We should try to be as good as Shakespeare / Poet comes out of the people / Each act of writing becomes a whole new experience / There's nothing like the literary imagination / I grew up in a very rich and exotic world / You need to write to be a writer / I place a lot of faith in that private searchlight / You've got to make the decisions yourself, if you're an artist / If you're only a copy of a person, you aren't going to write very well / We are creative creatures / Good writing isn't about easy things / Have poetry be a practice / I don't know whether you can do justice to yourself without doing justice to the world / Hardest and loneliest profession / Writer works to give the reader a true experience / I want it to be true / Getting it as right as it can be got / People with curiosity are always right out there / With each book, I'm learning how to write that book / It's this impulse toward order, the pleasure of discovering design / I get curious about a group of characters and I start investigating them / I inhabit each character / Those moments of clarity are little gems / I think that one should exist trying to be aware of as much as possible / I just think I'm really lucky / Nothing is more moving to me than what happens in the average life / Acquiescence to the unknown allows writers to stay vital / Sandra Gilbert -- Allen Ginsberg -- Donald Hall -- Etheridge Knight -- Clarence Major -- James Alan McPherson -- N. Scott Momaday -- Kit Reed -- Alix Kates Shulman -- William Stafford -- Wallace Stegner -- Ruth Stone -- Diane Wakoski -- Anne Waldman -- Richard Wilbur -- Richard Yates -- Helen Yglesias -- Marvin Bell -- Ivan Doig -- Jim Harrison -- Margot Livesey -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Larry McMurtry -- Sue Miller -- Kyoko Mori -- Thylias Moss -- W.S. Penn -- Scott Turow -- Katherine Vaz.
Use copy
Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers gathers more than two decades of wisdom from twenty-nine accomplished authors. It offers previously unpublished interviews along with freshly edited versions of ten interviews from Nancy Bunge's well-received previous collection, Finding the Words. The first section, Theory, incorporates interviews which document the golden age of writing programs in which authors with a strong sense of social and cultural responsibility taught as seriously as they wrote. These conversations delve into the writers' philosophies and teaching methods. The second section.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781587296413 (electronic bk.) 1587296411 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt20m5tfm JSTOR
Authorship.
Authorship--Study and teaching.
Authors--Interviews.
Art d'écrire.
Art d'écrire--Étude et enseignement.
authorship.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Authorship.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Study & Teaching.
Authors.
Authorship.
Authorship--Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Interviews.
PN147 / .B795 2005eb
808/.02