There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good writers are of necessity rare.
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.