You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.