Comments on: Two Ways to Deal with Aspiring Writers

By: On Dostoevsky – a collection of thoughts. « rambler

On Dostoevsky – a collection of thoughts. « rambler — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:19:09 +0000

[...] father, and reads him some of his verses… (As described in Helen Rittelmeyer’s piece, ‘Two Ways to Deal with Aspiring Writers’, [...]

By: Finn

Finn — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:22:38 +0000

Dostoevsky is Dostoevsky. I envy the critic Merezhkovsky for the good fortune to have contact with such a great writer, even though the experience was disagreeable in terms of personal gentility. Rude exchanges have often communicated important truths, and how much more applicable is that notion when encountering so brilliant an author.

By: Tracy S. Altman

Tracy S. Altman — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:48:39 +0000

I always chuckle at Flannery O’Connor’s response to the question of whether colleges in her day squelched creative writers: “My opinion is that they don’t squelch enough of them.”