Vrsta: Ostalo
ISBN: 0747232008
Godina izdanja: 1989
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Jon Winokur (editor) - Writers on Writing
Headline, 1989
222 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Authors discuss aspects of their profession including publishers, fame, grammar, plagiarism, work habits, and writer`s block...

A long-time collector of quotations, Winokur has gathered here an appealing assemblage of wit, wisdom and malice on the art and craft of writing. There are over 1600 pointed comments by writers on such subjects as plagiarism: `Whatever has been well said by anyone is mine` (Seneca). Other writers: `Fraud Madox Fraud` (Sitwell). Literary versus commercial values: `If Thomas Wolfe sold, I`d write like Thomas Wolfe` (Mickey Spillane). And the people who help disseminate their work: `Publishers are demons no doubt about it` (William James). With some 50 subject headings, an index and a short felicitous introduction by Winokur, this makes for elegant literary hors d`oeuvres.

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.


Nonfiction, 0747232008