Ten Questions for Helen Schulman

"I write as often and for as long as I can.” —Helen Schulman, author of Lucky Dogs
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"I write as often and for as long as I can.” —Helen Schulman, author of Lucky Dogs
“I am constantly questioning, resisting, studying, accepting, and wondering—all of which I believe to be the hallmarks of the writer’s life.” —Airea D. Matthews, author of Bread and Circus
“Writing this book forced me to deal with, and face, some parts of my personality that haven’t served me.” —Kwame Alexander, author of Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
“It’s always surprising when the book clicks into being an actual book—which I find happens at the very last minute.” —Emma Cline, author of The Guest
“You are going to read a book that will inspire you to write a book.” —Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
“Listen deeper. Dream bigger.” —Terra Trevor, author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways
The author of the novel The Covenant of Water discusses the interplay between his work as a writer and his work as a physician, the epic novel as a vessel for storytelling, and geography as character.
“You write one poem precisely so that you can write the next.” —Emily Lee Luan, author of 回 / Return
“I have to fight for every word, then fight to let them go.” —Vievee Francis, author of The Shared World
“Your voice is your voice. Your voice. No one else’s.” —Dean Rader, author of Before the Borderless: Dialogues With the Art of Cy Twombly