How to be a writer: Leaving a legacy
“I’d like to give people feelings -- of possibility, of happiness and recognition.” -- Mona Simpson, author of the new novel “Casebook” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
“To entertain as many people as I can with a memorable story.” -- Lee Goldberg, co-author, with Janet Evanovich, of “The Chase.” (Goldberg, left, shown with author Joseph Wambaugh) (Stefano Paltera / For the Times)
“Immortality.” --Meghan Daum, author of the memoir “Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House” [and also Richard Reeves, author of “Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949”] (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
“I’d like to save the imagination from death, where it’s headed - along with empathy, its twin.” --Carol Muske-Dukes, author of the poetry collection “Twin Cities” (Luis Sinco / AP)
“To keep expanding my idea of what a narrative can look like. To move ever further away from the reducible.” --Marisa Silver, author of “Mary Coin” (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)