Writing Problems: Reading and Giving

Kline, Brooks, Clifton, Dickinson, Tonks, Ignatow, Graves

Franz Kline:

You don’t paint the way someone, by observing your life, thinks you have to paint, you paint the way you have to in order to give, that’s life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

The purpose of a writing class (sometimes called a workshop) is to l…