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Creative Writing: Writers on writing

Creative writing includes poetry and verse, novels, short stories, novellas, and memoirs which draw on one's imaginative processes to express meaning via imagery and narrative, contrasting with nonfictional types of writing.

 

The following resource is important because every art form has its masters. So learning from them is vital for an up-and-coming author. They provide personal tips and tricks to start what looks like a hard journey on the outside but is actually easy on. This part provides various interviews, either in writing or on video, of big authors talking about the writing process and how they author!

Barbara Kingsolver

Nalo Hopkinson

Margaret Atwood

Stephen King

Joyce Carol Oates

 

Toni Morrison

Return Trip to Proust's World Stirs Personal Remembrance

 

Jeffrey Eugenides, Nicole Krauss, and Jhumpa Lahiri

Brandon Sanderson

A Novelist Breaches The Border To Nonfiction

Alice Walker

Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Gilbert

Sir Ken Robinson

Rebecca Solnit