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No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Thinking of two countries is a colonial habit. To understand how Australian politicians live in two countries, look at our enthusiasm for British and later American military causes. In any case, I have always inhabited two worlds simultaneously. One in my head and the other My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

To achieve this I will use whatever is at my disposal. For instance, I just gave your name to a character in my new book. I don't really know you, so this character can't be like you in any way. But I stole your name and stuck it on the page much like, I imagine, Robert Rauschenberg might pick up a sock, glue it to a canvas and paint over it. It was a sock.

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Now it's a Rauschenberg. Same thing. Can good writing be taught? Or is it simply honed? PC: Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. It also needs amazing will so if one is recruiting students one looks for both of these qualities together.

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Your role as teacher is to nurture and protect your students while, at the same time, forcing them beyond their limits, encouraging them to see the world, to imagine every action in the moment, to see the body as part of dialogue, and basically to write as if their life depended on it. If we were discussing tennis, we'd agree that a good coach can dramatically lift a player's game.

We're working writers, every day. We're as driven and obsessed as our twelve fiction students. BE: Even though you keep away from personal experience, is writing catharsis for you?

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PC: It is intensely emotional and hugely demanding. Add a reference: Book Author. Search for a book to add a reference. Videos About This Author. More videos Welcome back.