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Craft tips from Azar Nafisi at Hunter College
Posted on March 20, 2017 Leave a Comment

Love narrative, love blood. “Bad writers impose messages,” Nafisi said. “Critics do damage to literature by turning it into an idea, a message, a simple object that can’t penetrate the soul.” Whether fiction or memoir, Nafisi said that writers should be concerned with storytelling — the process of making a character flesh and blood.