“Don’t worry about getting into the profession. Write anyway to make your soul grow.
“That’s what the practice of any art is, it isn’t to make a living, it’s to make your soul grow.”
From interview: Vonnegut on Fiction
Entries from May 2007
Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to writers
Amy Hempel on being a writer
Amy Hempel has been creating short stories for more than twenty years. In a recent interview, she talked about some of her origins and personality as a writer.
[The following is from the article "Hempel's short stories are long on finish" by Hillel Italie, Associated Press / Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2007.]
“The way I got [...]
