Authors' Talk
Monty Python: The writing experience
Eric Idle on writing with other members of the Monty Python team. Shows that the collaborative writing experience may be more about personality than technique!
Stephen King: Tips for new writers
Stephen King’s advice to beginning writers. He responds to the question ‘Do you have any advice for beginner writers?’ from a student during a talk given at Yale in 2003.
Joyce Carol Oates: On Writing Characters
Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates discusses how a writer develops realistic characters, using examples from her novel “The Gravedigger’s Daughter.”
Jacques Derrida: Fear of Writing
Derrida’s oeuvre could be viewed as an exploration of the nature of writing in the broadest sense as diffĂ©rance. To the extent that writing always includes …
Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
Salman Rushdie talks about his book, The Enchantress of Florence








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