Thoughts From The Hopwood Room: Kazuo Ishiguro on “Who’s Your Teacher?”
Kazuo Ishiguro visits the Hopwood Room and talks about what qualifies a person to teach writing.
Kazuo Ishiguro visits the Hopwood Room and talks about what qualifies a person to teach writing.
“Along the way, listening to writers at my dinner table speak of their work, their contracts, their advances, their sales, their ratings on Amazon, their competitors, etc, I came to realize how much it takes to carve out a career as an author, to live by the pen. At my present age, none of these concerns are mine.” Elena Delbacno discusses the perks of publishing later in life.
“I think for a work to really ascend, there has to me something magical in the creation of it. It’s the difference between the art and the craft. The craft we can teach…The art is the stuff that only comes from inside the heart and the soul of the creator.”
Chris Cander talks shop about her creative process and the story origins of her latest novel.
Stephen Policoff discusses the story origins of his latest novel.
“Writing a novel—for me, at least—is like answering a craigslist ad placed by a group of people seeking a roommate. You meet them; you like them; you move in; but within a short period of time, all of them have moved out, and new people have moved in, and these new people, it turns out, are the ones you’re going to live with for the next few years.”
“As the title suggests, ’55 Miles to the Gas Pump,’ while somewhat interested in the abuse and murder of women and the troubled marriage of Rancher Croom and Mrs. Croom, isn’t exactly about those things.”
“What happened is an anecdote. What someone felt about what happened is a story.”
The whole reason I started writing about this character Stet Looper came through an odd alignment of blunders.
Perhaps no story, though, plays back through my head more often than Richard Ford’s “Rock Springs.”
