Choose the better question for Great Writers: “What is the Art of Fiction?” or “Who is really controlling the pen?”

“Editor Daniel Halpern was profoundly curious about the creative process–so he asked fifty-five world-renowned writers to briefly muse on the fictional persona behind the scenes, the alter(ed) ego who takes over when there is true literary work to be done” (1, back cover).

1. Daniel Halpern (Editor). Who’s Writing This?: Fifty-Five Writers on Humor, Courage, Self-Loathing, and the Creative Process. New York, ecco/Harper Perennial, 1995/2009.