Writing Groups Quotes

“The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew