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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
