How to Know If You're Really a Writer
Longing to write a book but unsure if you're meant to do it? Our favorite authors share their wake-up calls—moments that you can look for in your own life.
By Leigh Newman and Abbe Wright
Can You Make a Tape Recorder into Your Own Mrs. Gerbe?
"When I was 6, my first-grade teacher, Mrs. Gerbe, invited me up to her desk to dictate short stories to her. She sensed that my imagination was going at a pace that was faster than my writing hand. She became like my personal secretary, and I would practically say, 'Take a letter, Mrs. Gerbe!' My mother saved the stories I dictated, and in them you can see the earliest beginnings of a writer's inner workings." — Meg Wolitzer,
The Interestings
Published 08/09/2013
