Andrea Barrett: the hidden map of the story
Aimee Bender: somewhere along the line, I ate fairy tales
Amy Bloom: writing and therapy have nothing in common
Elizabeth Cox: putting the pain in straight
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: writers are great eavesdroppers
Maria Flook: I'll see it when I believe it
Lynn Freed: colonizing the territory of the fiction
Gish Jen: writing off into the darkness
Nora Okja Keller: trying to inhabit a soul
Jill McCorkle: always looking for the bite
Elizabeth McCracken: you must be prepared to break your own heart
Sue Miller: the hot dramas of the domestic scene
Sena Jeter Naslund: to be human is to be artistically creative
Ann Patchett: constantly plagiarizing myself
Jayne Anne Phillips: taking cues from the work itself
A.J. Verdelle: managing the whole fictive world
Lois-Ann Yamanaka: the characters know the sound of their own voice.
