AvatarCamilla AnderssonMay Sarton on How to Cultivate Your TalentThe Marginalian - Maria Popova“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins,” James Baldwin bellowed in his advice on writing. “Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” There is a reason we call our creative endowments gifts — they come to us unbidden from an impartial …
AvatarCamilla AnderssonHow to write good sentences: The key to becoming a great writerThe GuardianA great sentence makes all the difference to the quality of the book. It’s the very skeleton of writing, and how well you structure it can be the stepping stone between you and an excellent novel. As a writer, a strong sentence is as close as you may get to creating something truly beautiful - but …
AvatarCamilla Andersson11 Best Books to Gift Writers and Aspiring Authorsverified_publisherVanity Fair - By Keziah WeirBecause you can’t wrap a bow around an MFA! ‘Novelist As A Vocation’ by Haruki Murakami The dispositions of novelists, Haruki Murakami writes in his new collection of essays, “tend to be idiosyncratic and their lifestyles and general behavior frankly odd.” In Novelist As A Vocation Murakami writes …
AvatarCamilla AnderssonThe Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: a reading guideverified_publisherabc.net.au - By Kate Evans for The Bookshelf; Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange for The Book ShowAnother year, another Booker Prize shortlist featuring only one Brit, as well as a couple of notable omissions: The Colony by Women's …
AvatarCamilla AnderssonThe 5 best books to help you live a happier, more balanced life in 2022, according to a burnout coachverified_publisherCNBC - Morgan SmithThe poet Joseph Addison once said that "reading is to the mind is what exercise is to the body" — and multiple studies have shown that cracking open …
