Writing

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Make Believe
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Ghost Stories
Fruit Fly
Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir
La palabra mágica: Una vida escrita
Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
Make Believe
Fruit Fly
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Departure[s]
Ghost Stories
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
Light and Thread
If Books Could Kill
Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
Splinters
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Messy Lives of Book People
History Matters
Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered
Didion and Babitz
On Writing by Stephen  KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussCrafting the Character ARC by Jennie JarvisThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Books for Aspiring Writers
145 books — 119 voters
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Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
132 books — 235 voters

The Boy Kingdom by Achy ObejasLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Books With Beautiful Prose
237 books — 172 voters
The Paris Wife by Paula McLainMrs. Poe by Lynn CullenZ by Therese Anne FowlerThe Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie BenjaminVanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
Famous Authors in Fiction
179 books — 44 voters


On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Bird by Bird
The Elements of Style
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
The Writing Life
The War of Art
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous rewar ...more
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Stephen  King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

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Savannah's Book im writing a book! its called Heir of the Veil and im also working on another one tbd
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