Ten Questions

“I will miss these characters living in my head.” —Monica West, author of Revival Season

“There are so many journeys I’d like to take” —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides

“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse

“Do the hard stuff first.” —Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie

“Eventually, like a banner, the imagination unfurls itself.” —Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days

“I write four hours or one thousand words a day, whichever comes first.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Committed

This week’s installment of Ten Questions features María José Ferrada and Elizabeth Bryer, the author and the translator of How to Order the Universe.

“Commit to completing a scene each time you write” —Randa Jarrar, author of Love Is an Ex-Country

“I can’t imagine myself without this book.” —Jana Larson, author of Reel Bay

“Writing is revision. Period. That’s not glamorous, but it is rewarding.” —Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets

Ten writers, including Brandon Taylor and Kate Zambreno, share the best writing advice they’ve ever heard.