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Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.

Hilma Wolitzer
Lonely, Fun, Loneliness

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

Hilma Wolitzer
Suicide, Teaching, Goal

There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.

Hilma Wolitzer
Honesty, Teaching, Criticism

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

Hilma Wolitzer
Lonely, Writing, Character

My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.

Hilma Wolitzer
Book, Smell, Clothes

hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

Hilma Wolitzer
Los Angeles, Wanted
Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.14, Open Road Media

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

Hilma Wolitzer
Time, Blood, Pulse
Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “In the Palomar Arms: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

Hilma Wolitzer
Book, Loss, Light

The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.

Hilma Wolitzer
Writing, Inward, Looks

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