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

Winokur, Jon

ISBN 10: 0679763414 / ISBN 13: 9780679763413

Edité par Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

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• Titre: Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0679763414
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679763413
• Reliure: paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Like New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Jon Winokur is the author of a dozen books, including The Portable Curmudgeon and The Rich Are Different.  He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.