Book Quote by Chad Harbach

If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into…

— Chad Harbach

The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid…

— Rebecca Serle

What an invaluable handbook! Lori A. May has done her research, knows her stuff, and, whats best, lets the programs speak for themselves through…

— Molly Peacock

“According to catalog copy for a forthcoming book from the University of Iowa Press, Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans,…

— Timothy Aubry

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

— Edward Hirsch

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have…

— Pankaj Mishra

When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and the gender…

— Camille Perri

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper