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

by Jon Winokur

ISBN: 9780679763413
ISBN10: 0679763414

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

by Jon Winokur

Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publish date: 05/01/2000
ISBN: 9780679763413
ISBN10: 0679763414

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Description: Perhaps the best bon mots ever penned about literature have come from the minds of its greatest creators. Take Faulkner's rhapsodies on the author's moral duties, Nabokov's unapologetic reference to characters as "galley slaves", E.B. White's time-honored tenets of grammar and style. Often, the advice is contradictory. Always, it offers a glimpse at genius -- and a chance for every wordsmith to improve his craft.

In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world and work of writing. Here are our literary heroes on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Asimov on the despotic tendencies of the editor, Cheever on the perils of drink, Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Raymond Chandler to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, always entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader -- and the reader in every writer.

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

by Jon Winokur

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

by Jon Winokur

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