Uploaded May 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"I used to think creative writing couldn't be taught and that you just kind of did it—until I realized that I had actually learned in an advertising agency all these skills," says Fay Weldon.
In this new video from Open Road, Weldon talks about the writing process, balancing speaking one's truth with wanting to be liked, and the ideal world she envisions in which men and women have equal dignity.
"I used to think creative writing couldn't be taught and that you just kind of did it—until I realized that I had actually learned in an advertising agency all these skills," says Fay Weldon.
In this new video from Open Road, Weldon talks about the writing process, balancing speaking one's truth with wanting to be liked, and the ideal world she envisions in which men and women have equal dignity.
