"People are always interested in how and why a writer writes.

I think this is because imaginative writing seems something like magic. Whether a writer describes a piece of life in exhaustive, realistic detail or invents whole societies out of the air, the ability to bring the smell of the sea or a look of exhaustion vividly into your presence with words alone almost defies logic. This is one reason, I think, why people often want to talk to the writer of a book after a reading and why writers are often interviewed. It helps the writer, too, to be able to think about his or her process." 

—Roger Mitchell

INTERVIEWS WITH ROGER MITCHELL