Book DescriptionEight interviews, eight stories, eight commentaries Eight of Canada's finest writers Writers Talking gives readers a chance to listen in: Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael Winter on writing Newfoundland, K D Miller on being an actor who writes The volume also features stories by and conversations with Mary Borsky, ожъцв Steven Heighton, Elise Levine, Annabel Lyon, and Lisa Moore `Why do some people insist writing can't be taught? (If the same people believetheir own writing benefits from being edited then they are hypocrites who should close their mouths And if they don't believe their own writing benefits from being edited then they are insufferable egotists who should close their mouths And if they don't, themselves, write, then they don't know what they're talking about and should close their mouths QED) ' -- Annabel Lyon `To survive on the Lord of the Flies desert isle that is boyhood -- especially at an isolated summer camp, where the life of the body is all -- the `sensitive' child has to make himself somehow indispensable to the tribe I forged my belonging out of narrative ' -- Steven Heighton `I knew that a character in a novel could watch a sunset in San Francisco, and I knew that a character in a book could watch a parade in New York City But I did not know a character in a novel could watch the ice break up in Edmonton ' -- Mary Borsky `I could never really trust that it was enough to let the popcorn be a popcorn, I want it to be suffering unrequited love, or be an egomaniac ' -- Lisa Moore `My sharpest sense of writing is that it bears a central relationship to wordlessness -- the blank spaces, the white margins at the edges of our daily lives ' -- Elise Levine `I suppose I have to begin by confessing that my childhood was a normal one, although that word hardly captures how much fun it was ' -- Terry Griggs `As I confess in my third book, Holy Writ, I have a relationship with writing -- one that is akin to my relationship with God, and is at the very centre of my life That makes it both dangerous and dear To do it badly -- to play it safe, take it easy and not let it cost me anything -- is to betray what is best inme But to do it well? That is to stand up naked and turn around very slowly ' -- K D Miller `I'm convinced that to be honest in a story is to deal with a bunch of lies about the real world, but to configure them in the best way you can to contrive some kind of truth out of it ' -- Michael Winter.  Шерман -2003 г 228 стр ISBN 0889842744.