Ten Questions for Tochi Onyebuchi
“It’d be easier for me to stop talking than to stop writing.” —Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Goliath
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“It’d be easier for me to stop talking than to stop writing.” —Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Goliath
The author of Nobody’s Magic shares lessons from writing an unlikable nonnormative character.
“I will miss thinking about Joan and her world every second of every day.” —Weike Wang, author of Joan Is Okay
“Make it so good they can’t reject it.” —Edgar Gomez, author of High-Risk Homosexual
“Everything fell out of me in five intense sleepless weeks.” —Xavier Navarro Aquino, author of Velorio
Ten writers, including Alex Dimitrov and Kaitlyn Greenidge, share the best writing advice they’ve ever heard.
The author recalls being pregnant in the early days of the pandemic and asks: How we can continue to create in times of uncertainty?
“If you feel that the story is good and that it needs to be read, then keep at it until you’re happy with it.” —Obed Silva, author of The Death of My Father the Pope
“This was the book I was meant to write my whole life.” —Neel Patel, author of Tell Me How to Be
“Thinking is really about 90 percent of the work.” —James Hannaham, author of Pilot Impostor