Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
Autor Jon Winokuren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2000
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780679763413
ISBN-10: 0679763414
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 144 x 214 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0679763414
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 144 x 214 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS
Locul publicării:United States
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Notă biografică
Jon Winokur is the author of a dozen books, including The Portable Curmudgeon and The Rich Are Different. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
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On agents: "Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist." -- Russell Banks
On characters: "The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
On colleagues: "Artists never thrive in colonies. Ants do. What the budding artist needs is the privilege of wrestling with his problems in solitude -- and now and the a piece of red meat." -- Henry Miller
On critics and criticism: "It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at only one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends." -- Samuel Johnson
On dialogue: "Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore." -- Edith Wharton
On discouragement: "Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." -- Red Smith
On drink: "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
On editors and editing: "Bow down before them. They know what they are doing." -- Quentin Crisp
On grammar and usage: "Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical." -- W. Somerset Maugham
On characters: "The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
On colleagues: "Artists never thrive in colonies. Ants do. What the budding artist needs is the privilege of wrestling with his problems in solitude -- and now and the a piece of red meat." -- Henry Miller
On critics and criticism: "It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at only one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends." -- Samuel Johnson
On dialogue: "Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore." -- Edith Wharton
On discouragement: "Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." -- Red Smith
On drink: "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
On editors and editing: "Bow down before them. They know what they are doing." -- Quentin Crisp
On grammar and usage: "Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical." -- W. Somerset Maugham
Recenzii
"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
Descriere
Winokur gathers the counsel of more than 400 celebrated authors in a treasury on the world and work of writing. "Advice to Writers" contains the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown.