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New Issue of The Writer’s Workshop Review

Who Are You Calvin Bledsoe? The Writer's Workshop Review. — Who Are You Calvin Bledsoe? The Writer’s Workshop Review.

Morel mushroom, The Writer's Workshop. — Morel mushroom, The Writer’s Workshop.

Morel mushrooms, The Writer's Workshop. — Morel mushrooms, The Writer’s Workshop.

Lava, The Writer's Workshop — Lava, The Writer’s Workshop

Paul Hostovsky and Ona, The Writer's Workshop. — Paul Hostovsky and Ona, The Writer’s Workshop Review.

I’m now working on the new issue of The Writer’s W

Brock Clarke, The Writer's Workshop. — Brock Clarke, photo by Nate Eldridge.

The Hawks are in Love, The Writer's Workshop. — The Hawks are in Love, The Writer’s Workshop Review.

orkshop Review. Stay tuned!

There are only two or three human stories.

Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes for thousands of years.

Willa Cather

Literature is nothing but carpentry.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The forms of things unknown and the the poet’s pen…

And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Just follow your hero.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!

Ray Bradbury

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

Writing a novel is a terrible experience.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

Flannery O’Connor

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth.

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Anne Lamott

The difference between the right word and the almost right word…

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain

…with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced…the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always.

Ernest Hemingway