Style: The Art of Writing Well (1955) by F.L. Lucas
“Your generalization is beautifully epigrammatic.”
Tag: Poetic Fiction
Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984) by Ernest Hemingway
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
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I Wonder (2013) by CG FEWSTON
A Poem
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Meditations (1909) by Marcus Aurelius
Quotes
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Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
Earth has been invaded twice by an alien species called Formics.
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The American Novel and Its Tradition (1933) by Richard Chase
The American Novel by Chase has a great chapter called “Three Novels of Manners.”
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The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama (1936) by Lord Raglan
A writer will take just as much pleasure from this book as a historian might.
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Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
A tale of Saleem Sinai, who is born on August 15, 1947 at India’s independence.
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Apocalyptic Planet (2012) by Craig Childs & the Never-Ending Doom
From Sonora, Mexico – where at dawn, Devin and Childs surf the sands with childlike eyes and hearts of poets, and Devin recites Charles Bukowski.
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On Writing (2000) by Stephen King
Advice on Writing
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tHe ArT of ReCKleSSneSS (2010) by Dean Young
“Meaningless results not from too little but too much meaning.”
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum
A Fun Read
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Sweet Tooth (2012) by Ian McEwan
Serena is hired by MI5 and is in charge of signing up a very young and undiscovered author.
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The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez
“All the more pained.”
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Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov & the Allure of the Innocent
“lo. lee. ta.”
