Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.
I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a… - Emily Barton
I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a…
- Emily Barton
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't k… - Emily Barton
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't k…
Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new … - Emily Barton
Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new …
I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do. - Emily Barton
I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of eve… - Emily Barton
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of eve…
We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these… - Emily Barton
We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these…
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real pro… - Emily Barton
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real pro…
I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about i… - Emily Barton
I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about i…
Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really… - Emily Barton
Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really…
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