Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.
John DufresneI grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.
John DufresneI write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.
John DufresneWhat you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.
John Dufresne