What can universities do to develop the creative writing obsessive-compulsive disorder in students?
My, my. You’ve taken one of my jokes and thrown it back at me. Yes, a fanatical devotion to the arts – an obsessive-compulsive disorder, if you will – is necessary to the production of great work and to the continued stimulation necessary to a long and evolving career. What can we do? Show the students the very best examples of writing and coach them on their way. How have the students changed over the years you’ve been at USC? In my field – the arts – the students are very similar now to what they were then. There is a great pool of talent in writing, and I’m happy to be involved in it. If there is a difference, it’s in the fact that the students are perhaps more attuned to the ways of a creative writing workshop today for the simple reason that more workshops have been available to them over the course of their education. To the consternation of many other fiction writers, you are incredibly prolific. You also don’t watch television. Are the two connected? Is there anything on televi
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