She's been quoting from The Paris Review Interviews, a collection of conversations with some of the best writers that ever lived. They dig deep into the craft and experiences of these famous authors, delivering one hundred times more insight than the dashed-off essays you read in most magazines nowadays.
Spend some time surfing the reviews of this book. Newton leaves a link trail that will help you find out more about the book. Here's a sample. Ernest Hemingway explaining why he won't explain his art to an interviewer:
"'You can be sure that there is much more there than will be read at any first reading and having made this it is not the writer’s province to explain it or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work,' [he said.] See also, from the same collection: Borges on Twain. (Mark Sarvas (see sidebar) and the San Francisco Chronicle are also excited about the book.)"
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