Writers

Mentors, Muses and Monsters

This essay Annie Dillard and the writing life by Alexander Chee will show your writing guts to you. with sentences like 'Compare yourself to Colette, or Henry James or Edith Wharton.' and 'Go up to the place in the bookstore where your books will go, she said. Walk right up and find your place on the shelf. Put your finger there, and then go every time.'

In The Snow Globe, Jonathan Safran Foer writes about the give and take that goes on between writers.Yehuda Amichai with his A Man doesnt have time poem, the kind that Emily Dickinson says you know its a poem, it takes your head off would influence anyone he comes in contact with.
In 'When Julie met Deb..' her persuasion in keeping at wriitng for seven years hinging her writing life on two editors approval.

Excerpts