Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
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This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to consider the advice of Willa Cather, whom Jane quoted during our interview. Here is the full text of the quote, which she was kind enough to share with me. It comes from Willa Cather’s On the Art of Fiction:
"Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole, so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader’s consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page."
Fiona McCrae - Interview #633 (7/13/20)
Ann Dávila Cardinal - Interview #632 (7/6/20)
Danielle Trussoni - Interview #631 (6/29/20)
Robert and Martha Manning - Archive Interview #630 (6/22/20)
J. Chester Johnson - Interview #629 (6/15/20)
Evan Fallenberg - Archive Interview #628 (6/8/20)
Huck Gutman - Interview #627 (6/1/20)
Alka Joshi - Interview #626 (5/25/20)
Jeffrey Deaver - Interview #625 (5/25/20)
Bruce Chalmer - Interview #624 (5/18/20)
Julia Alvarez - Interview #623 (5/11/20)
Rufi Thorpe - Interview #622 (4/27/20)
James Crews - Interview #621 (4/20/20)
Ginny Sassaman - Interview #620 (4/20/20)
Alma Katsu - Interview #619 (4/20/20)
Rob Harrell - Interview #618 (4/20/20)
Laurette Folk - Interview #617 (4/13/20)
Phyllis Barber - Interview #616 (4/13/20)
Bill Torrey - Interview #615 (Special Show)
Scudder Parker - Interview #614 (Special Show)
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