Writing Practice


Bird by Bird
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
A Room of One’s Own
Several Short Sentences About Writing
These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Chloe Thurlow
I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning revealed the flaws and excesses it was trying to conceal.
Chloe Thurlow

Natalie Goldberg
We learn writing by doing it.
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

More quotes...