How to Write Great Fiction

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Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning author of "Midnight's Children," says he thinks the idea of inspiration is "nonsense."  Isabelle Allende, who has written 18 novels (including the critically acclaimed "House of the Spirits") says it's important to write every day. Canadian author Margaret Atwood says that a writer should carry a notebook at all times.
These are just a few bits of wisdom and advice from the acclaimed authors in Big Think's new series "How to Write Great Fiction." Writers from John Irving to Bret Easton Ellis to Walter Mosley to Jonathan Lethem talk about how difficult it can be to get words onto the page, and what it means to embrace the life of a writer. more...