Robert Cormier's response to Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer

Robert Cormier's response to Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer

In this one-page typed letter dated April 14, 1998, from Robert Cormier to Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer, he shares his writing technique of "gradual release," that it takes him 1.5 to 2 years to write a book, and that emotions are the engine for him. He advises here that would-be writers must "read, read, read" and write daily because "practice makes perfect." He says that he thinks he has received a lot of correspondence from students at their school, but "evidently" had misplaced it. He asked the girls to convey his best to classmates and that he would reply when the letters turn up.

Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library

14 April 1998

Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo

JPG, 8.5 x 11 paper

English