“I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.” WritingYearsLongFictionClassCreativeCoupleUniversitySeniorCreative WritingWorkshopsCarolsJoycePrincetonSenior YearPrinceton University Author:Mohsin Hamid
“My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.” ReadingWaitingFictionWifeExampleMajorsAnd LoveUniversityCurrentsMy WifeActressesEnglish MajorNorthwesternGoldfinchesNorthwestern University Author:Nick Offerman
“When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.” WritingYearsSchoolCoursesHoursFictionTeachUniversityDeterminedClassroomExtensionsFiction Writing Author:James Thayer
“Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.” FictionInfluenceStrangeUniversityGenreDiscoveringPower Of LoveBlakeJoyceBorgesLovecraftYeatsJeterPinter Author:Hal Duncan
“When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to language itself, to the way that language works.” WayNeedsWritingReasonLanguagePayAttentionFictionCreativeGreaterTaughtPoetProgramUniversityCreative WritingWorkshopsFiction WritingFiction WritersHouston Author:Edward Hirsch
“I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas, Austin, and they collected some of his writings and put them in a little collection. It's called DreamTigers in English, but it doesn't exist in Spanish. It's a little sampler. But that collection in English is what struck me, because in there he has his poems, and I was a poet as well as a fiction writer.” WritingWellsLittlesBookRememberFictionTakenPoetUniversityCollectionsTexasFiction WritersAustinBorgesUniversity Of Texas Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.” WorldWritingFirstsSeemsFictionStudyPoetCriticismUniversityFiction WritersDisconnectedLiterary Criticism Author:Robert Hass