Writers on Writing
Articles
- Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers. A collection of all the famous advice on writing presented in The Marginalian over the years, featuring authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Henry Miller, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Orlean, Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, and more.
- Writers on Writing. The New York Times complete archive of the Writers on Writing column, a series in which writers explore literary themes.
- In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching.
- Tim O’ Brien On Writing
- Interview with Octavia Butler
- In Their Own Words: R.O. Kwon On Writing
- Eight Lessons Kazuo Ishiguro, This Year’s Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Can Teach Us About the Writing Process
- Interview with J.M. Coetzee in El Pais
- The Paris Review Interviews
Podcasts
- Writers on Writing. Writers talk about the art, craft, and business of writing.
- The First Draft Podcast. “For more than eight years, host Sarah Enni spoke with writers and storytellers about their lives, their craft, and how the two overlap.” This site features an archive of over 300 interviews with writers across genres from around the world.
- The Writer Files podcast. This podcast has over 400 episodes featuring interviews with various authors on how they write. Their logline is “Learn how acclaimed writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block.”
- Longform Podcast. “A weekly conversation with a nonfiction writer on how they tell stories.”
- On Being poetry archive. This site includes interviews with poets, poetry films, and a curated audio collection of poetry read by poets and translators.
- Poetry Unbound. This site is an immersive exploration of selected poems, hosted by Pádraig Ó Tuama.
- “The Inner Landscape of Beauty.” Krista Tippett interviews poet John O’Donohue on the On Being podcast.
- “Colson Whitehead Talks About ‘The Nickel Boys'”
Videos
- Writer to Writer: Tim O’Brien – In Search of Truth
- From the 60 Minutes archive: August Wilson
- At Home with Jhumpa Lahiri
- Writers On Writing | Anne Patchett
- Margaret Atwood’s Top 5 Writing Tips
- 11 Writers: Advice to the Young
- “Sunday Morning”: Writers on writing. CBS Sunday Morning interviews with writers Anne Rice, Louise Penny, Umberto Eco, Neil Simon, and Stephen King.
- A Conversation on Writing with ZZ Packer
- ABC Tried to Bury This James Baldwin Interview. Four Decades Later, It’s Blisteringly Relevant.
- From 2010: A rare look at author Philip Roth
- Worth Quoting: Joy Harjo
- Kalliope: An Interview With Louise Gluck
- Worth Quoting: Margaret Atwood
- Sandra Cisneros Interview: How Anger Helped Me Write My Most Popular Book
- “I became a writer once I realised no one liked my stuff.” | Colson Whitehead | Louisiana Channel
- Colson Whitehead: How to Write and the Art of Writing
- Kazuo Ishiguro: On Writing and Literature
- Writer to Writer 20: Finding Your Poetic Voice – Robert Bly
- Worth Quoting: Alice Walker
- Of Beauty and Consolation, Episode 17, John M. Coetzee
