Writers on Writing Author:Walter Allen "For all those with a serious interest in literature this unique anthology provides a rare opportunity to explore at first hand the creative processes of some of the world's greatest poets and novelists. What goes on in the mind of a writer? How, looking at the world around him, does an author translate his experience into words, narrative, ch... more »aracters, style and form? Quotations from the letters, diaries, essays and even the novels themselves of nearly 70 famous writers answer these and many other questions. . ."« less