Writers on Writing

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Summary: Required Reading For Aspiring Writers
Review: It puzzles me beyond belief that "Writers on Writing" is out of print. This book is a grand, well-chosen collection of quotes on such apects of writing--from getting published, to starting out, to writer's block. Jon Winokur is a quote-collecting master. When I first became serious about writing, I found this book at my local library, and found it hard to put down, and extremely helpful and insightful. I was being taught by the likes of such literary greats as Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is an educational journey all the way through, using down to earth quotes from those who know, rather than a drawn out step-by-step instructional book. It cured my writer's block, and improved my amateur work. Required reading for aspiring writers.

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Summary: A Must Have for Writers or Toastmasters!
Review: This neat book has more than 1,500 witty & colorful quotations on the writer's art.

I used this book as a Toastmaster for speech research, and have reveled in its wonderful brief antedotes & witty thoughts on writing.

As Josh Billings states in the book, "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgement". I think you will (borrow) from this book often!