Our Fall issue is here—featuring interviews with Svetlana Alexievich and Donald Antrim, prose by Sam McKinniss, Scott McClanahan, and Woo Dayoung, poetry by Diane Seuss and Zakaria Mohammed, art by Silke Otto-Knapp and Laura Owens, a cover by Elizabeth Glaessner, and more. Follow the link in our bio to subscribe and read issue no. 257. buff.ly/eEDUJKN

“As far as I’m concerned, I believe the subject chooses the writer.” —Mario Vargas Llosa buff.ly/hvrLTWg

“I don’t think we can have a good society if we don’t have good poetry.” —Octavio Paz buff.ly/j4eltps

“For a large part of my life I’ve been terrified of home.” —Derek Mahon buff.ly/ElGTS2F

“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.” —Dorothy Parker buff.ly/TzY3vUF

“I’m so puritanical that I can’t describe a kiss without blushing.” —Anthony Burgess buff.ly/sOmn3rg

This week, we’ve unlocked Ernest Hemingway’s Art of Fiction interview from the archive. theparisreview.org/authors/3…

“For me writing a novel is like being on an ocean without a compass.” —August Wilson buff.ly/wsbAmht

“There’s no inherent problem which prohibits understanding but the assumptions brought to it.” —Ralph Ellison buff.ly/d9YlIgn

“The roles you play end up being the story of your life.” —Elias Khoury buff.ly/cIbPQX2

“It would be hard for me to stay with a novel if I didn’t see a very strong personal story at the center of it.” —Joan Didion buff.ly/FwcNJka

“But everything we think of as real is still always our own fiction. We’re all fiction writers.” —Chris Ware buff.ly/nHWu66M

“I’ve read and continue to read the Bible a lot—partly as a result of being in all those hotel rooms, partly a long-standing habit.” —Margaret Atwood buff.ly/VK8voEE

“Isn’t it a miracle that we’ve ended up as ourselves?” —Hilton Als buff.ly/wGbhNBM

“You should speak out because if you don’t, it’s going to harm you.” —Claudia Rankine buff.ly/plbJYgh

“Most of the losses we face are on paper, a loss of words.” —Wright Morris buff.ly/TUiFEUu

“I would always take notes, but invariably the notes became enhanced. Everything was true, everything was checked, but the facts had a particular hue, a different arrangement.” —Jamaica Kincaid buff.ly/xBOeN1v

“Call it precious and go to hell, I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence.” —Truman Capote buff.ly/E88Pakp

“The movement of the poem should be like a canal, with a volta that surprises the reader.” —Henri Cole buff.ly/VJICsGH

“In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal.” —Margaret Atwood buff.ly/VK8voEE

“The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.” —Chinua Achebe buff.ly/99MA3Nj