Advice to Writers a Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
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.
