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Search - Advice to Writers : A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights

Advice to Writers A Compendium of Quotes Anecdotes and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
Author: Jon Winokur

Here from more than four hundred of the world's most celebrated writers and booksmiths--from Euripides and Eudora Welty to Cynthia Ozick and P. J. O'Rourke--is a treasury of useful advice on the world and work of writing. Compiled by the author of The Rich Are Different and the best-selling Portable Curmudgeon, Advice to Writers... more » includes priceless counsel on subjects ranging from writer's block and writing dialogue to dealing with agents and editors and appearing on television; from work habits and procrastination rituals to drinking on the job; from success, money, and fame to the lack of one or all of them.

Flaubert, Twain, and Kipling impart their venerable wisdom. Red Smith tells us that "writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Annie Dillard, David Guterson, and Maureen Dowd offer practical suggestions. David Remnick describes the ideal editor. A genre's-eye view comes from science-fiction master Harlan Ellison and sportswriter Frank Deford. Provocative insights come from David Mamet, Russell Banks, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Clever and sagacious, pragmatic and heartening, this is an essential volume for both the aspiring writer and the devoted reader.

ISBN-13: 9780679443872
ISBN-10: 0679443878
Publication Date: 4/20/1999
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Hardcover
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Tami V. (TamiV) reviewed Advice to Writers : A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights on 12/23/2006 + 48 more book reviews

I loved this book and used its quotes in my writing classes.

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