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- 2000
- Book Title
- Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writ...
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- 9780679763413
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Advice to Writers : A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
- Item Height
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- Item Length
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- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Width
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- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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In Advice to Writers , Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon , gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity- James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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9780679763413
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Publication Name
Advice to Writers : A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
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Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
8.2 Oz
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"Best advice I've ever received: Finish." --Peter Mayle "Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke." --F. Scott Fitzgerald "Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time." --Kurt Vonnegut, "Best advice I've ever received: Finish." --Peter Mayle "Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke." --F. Scott Fitzgerald "Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time." --Kurt Vonnegut
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