The first issue of The Paris Review, in 1953, carried an interview with E. M. Forster about how he wrote. The format stuck: long conversations about method, revised by the writer until every answer says what they meant.
Start anywhere. Hemingway on standing up to write, Toni Morrison on writing before dawn, Borges on the pleasures of being read to. The questions are practical, and the answers often turn philosophical anyway.
The archive is free to read online, arranged by decade and by series, from fiction and poetry to translation and the theatre.
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