Audience Quote by Debra Dean

I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the…

— Eleanor Catton

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a…

— Octavia Butler

It seems to me that the whole purpose of the workshops is really twofold. One - to help people make better pictures, and two…

— Freeman Patterson

Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work…

— Hilma Wolitzer

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an…

— James Salter

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right…

— James Gunn

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many…

— Alan Menken