Andrea Barrett: the hidden map of the story -- Aimee Bender: somewhere along the line, I ate fairy tales -- Amy Bloom: writing and therapy have nothing in common -- Elizabeth Cox: putting the pain in straight -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: writers are great eavesdroppers -- Maria Flook: I'll see it when I believe it -- Lynn Freed: colonizing the territory of the fiction -- Gish Jen: writing off into the darkness -- Nora Okja Keller: trying to inhabit a soul -- Jill McCorkle: always looking for the bite -- Elizabeth McCracken: you must be prepared to break your own heart -- Sue Miller: the hot dramas of the domestic scene -- Sena Jeter Naslund: to be human is to be artistically creative -- Ann Patchett: constantly plagiarizing myself -- Jayne Anne Phillips: taking cues from the work itself -- A.J. Verdelle: managing the whole fictive world -- Lois-Ann Yamanaka: the characters know the sound of their own voice.
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