Poets & Writers Theater
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“I don’t really think you can teach people to write, you can just teach them to read. Read everything you can about your setting or your characters or whatever it is you don’t know.” In this Granta video, Sarah Moss, author of the novels Ghost Wall (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) and Summerwater (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), offers advice on first drafts, research, and the importance of reading to a writer.
Tags: Fiction | Sarah Moss | Ghost Wall | Summerwater | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2019 | Granta | writing advice