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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"The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business." --A.J. Liebling
There are at least as many theories about writing as there are writers to expound them. In Advice to Writers Jon Winokur has collected some of the best bons mots ever penned on the literary life. In chapters covering such diverse topics as agents, publishers, critics, and process, Winokur lets writers speak for themselves--and often the advice is contradictory: "The professional guts a book through--in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve," John Gregory Dunne opines. "It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life," André Gide ripostes. There is advice on grammar and style, on dialogue, plot, and character, and also on topics such as occupational hazards and drink (surely a subset of those hazards). "Write first, drink later," Patrick McGrath suggests. "To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober." (Poet and essayist Philip Larkin, on the other hand, advises, "Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.")
Novices looking for practical information on the nuts and bolts of the business may not find it here. On the other hand, advice from the likes of David Remnick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Maxwell Perkins, Isaac Asimov, Samuel Johnson, Calvin Trillin, P.D. James, and many, many other professional scribes can serve to inspire. At the very least, this potpourri of words to the wise will keep the incipient writer amused between drafts. --Alix Wilber -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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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
"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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The book is a delightful mix of thoughtful, irreverent, cynical and joyful quotes, interspersed with occasional brief advice that is specific enough to be helpful. Well done!
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I loved this book. It made me want to sit down and write the Great American Novel.
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For those of us familiar with Mr Winokur's literary tourbooks, Advice To Writers represents a welcome refuge and a haven of information regarding the literary bugaboos we all experience in our efforts to create a representative sampling of intelligence that would have value, in some form or fashion, to someone else - anyone else - for that matter.
And isn't it wonderful to know that our most frustrating issues were experienced by and dealt with by our most astonishing and enduring literary heroes.
Thanks to Mr. Winokur for providing us with the looking glass as we hopefully learn through the inciteful pain and suffering of the "literary lights" we so hope to emulate.
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banal, trite, uninspiring
Jon Winokur spent no time trying to find the best quotes, the most pithy, or insightful quotes. He just picked enough quotes to fill his quota. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Juli 1999 von Jason Varsoke
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THE BEST BOOK ON THE SUBJECT
Advice to Writers is Jon Winokur's finest book -- and that's saying something. Its already pulled me out of writer's block several times. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
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A inspiration for anyone who has ever wanted to write.
Jon Winokur, author of the divinely wicked Portable Curmudgeon, has compiled what amounts to the ultimate literary seminar for an aspiring writer. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
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Inspiring, Enlightening and Amusing
Books about writing are usually self-important and affected. This one isn't.
Winokur dissects the writer's life and shows that it isn't all art and inspiration. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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A great guide to the terrors and pleasures of writing.
As a writer and teacher of creative nonfiction, I hunger for a glimpse into the interior lives of authors. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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Derivative and shallow
I suppose I should have expected that, in a book made up of other people's words, there would not be a lot of originality. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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