Why I Write

Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction

By: Will Blythe

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Paperback | 21 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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In this widely praised anthology, twenty-six writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. The contributors range from literary lions to rising stars and include: Pat Conroy, Mary Gaitskill, Norman Mailer, Rick Moody, Terry McMillan, David Foster Wallace, Mark Jacobsen and many more.

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These brief essays often amount to writers stripping themselves shivering naked, and answering, with truth and emotion, that very personal very private question. - Baltimore SUN

Shrewd and poignant revelations about the process and the pain. - L.A. TIMES

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
At the Point of My Pen	p. 3
Uncanny the Singing That Comes from Certain Husks	p. 5
Where Does Writing Come From?	p. 13
I Am a ... Genius!	p. 21
Some for Glory, Some for Praise	p. 34
That's What Dogs Do	p. 41
Stories	p. 47
Writing and a Life Lived Well: Notes on Allan Gurganus	p. 61
Easing My Heart Inside	p. 69
Why the Daily Writing of Fiction Matters	p. 74
Phobia and Composition	p. 84
Secret Agent	p. 98
The Lousy Rider	p. 103
Writing	p. 110
For the Money	p. 116
Why I Write	p. 124
Everything Else Falls Away	p. 128
The Nature of the Fun	p. 140
Why I Write, or Not	p. 146
The Wolf in the Tall Grass	p. 155
Rent Retards the Revolution!	p. 164
The War We Can't Win, We Can't Lose, We Can't Quit	p. 171
Collecting Myself	p. 182
Why She Writes	p. 188
In Silence	p. 195
Who Is That Man Tied to the Mast?	p. 198
Notes on Contributors	p. 222
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