TY - BOOK AU - Bunge,Nancy L. TI - Master class: lessons from leading writers SN - 9781587296413 AV - PN147 .B795 2005eb U1 - 808/.02 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Authorship KW - Study and teaching KW - Authors KW - Interviews KW - Art d'écrire KW - Étude et enseignement KW - authorship KW - aat KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - bisacsh KW - Study & Teaching KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Something my life can teach other people; Sandra Gilbert --; You see beauty and you want to share it; Allen Ginsberg --; We should try to be as good as Shakespeare; Donald Hall --; Poet comes out of the people; Etheridge Knight --; Each act of writing becomes a whole new experience; Clarence Major --; There's nothing like the literary imagination; James Alan McPherson --; I grew up in a very rich and exotic world; N. Scott Momaday --; You need to write to be a writer; Kit Reed --; I place a lot of faith in that private searchlight; Alix Kates Shulman --; You've got to make the decisions yourself, if you're an artist; William Stafford --; If you're only a copy of a person, you aren't going to write very well; Wallace Stegner --; We are creative creatures; Ruth Stone --; Good writing isn't about easy things; Diane Wakoski --; Have poetry be a practice; Anne Waldman --; I don't know whether you can do justice to yourself without doing justice to the world; Richard Wilbur --; Hardest and loneliest profession; Richard Yates --; Writer works to give the reader a true experience; Helen Yglesias --; I want it to be true; Marvin Bell --; Getting it as right as it can be got; Ivan Doig --; People with curiosity are always right out there; Jim Harrison --; With each book, I'm learning how to write that book; Margot Livesey --; It's this impulse toward order, the pleasure of discovering design; Bobbie Ann Mason --; I get curious about a group of characters and I start investigating them; Larry McMurtry --; I inhabit each character; Sue Miller --; Those moments of clarity are little gems; Kyoko Mori --; I think that one should exist trying to be aware of as much as possible; Thylias Moss --; I just think I'm really lucky; W.S. Penn --; Nothing is more moving to me than what happens in the average life; Scott Turow --; Acquiescence to the unknown allows writers to stay vital; Katherine Vaz; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=203070 ER -