“A professor of mine at the University of Arizona, Jason Brown, taught me that 90 percent of writing is revision, as well as the importance of never settling for good enough. Eventually, through his modeling, I learned how to polish my stories at the sentence level.”
—David James Poissant, The Heaven of Animals
“My most important writing teacher was my father. He told me to always remember the five senses when writing, not just what something looked like, but what it felt like – how it sounded, smelled, tasted.”
—Alysia Abbott, Fairyland: A Memoir of my Father
“Bernard Malamud, who taught at Bennington College, told us about the importance of routine – how you never were to wait for the Muse, because the Muse would not appear unless you were…
