Kureishi slams creative writing courses | The Bookseller

According to an Independent report, he told the audience that the fundamentals of storytelling could not be taught, saying: "A lot of my students just can't tell a story. They can write sentences but they don't know how to make a story go from there all the way through to the end without people dying of boredom in between. It's a difficult thing to do and it's a great skill to have. Can you teach that? I don't think you can."