Famous Writers on Writing- A Collection

Most recent stories in Famous Writers on Writing- A Collection

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  Michael Mahin

  

  Hemingway on Writing, Knowledge, and the Dangers of Ego

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  “Writing, at its best, is a lonely life,” Hemingway proclaimed in his short and memorable 1954 Nobel acceptance speech. In Death in the Afternoon …

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  Michael Mahin

  

  William Faulkner on Writing, the Purpose of Art, Working in a Brothel, and the Meaning of Life

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  When The Paris Review launched in 1953, it revolutionized the art of the interview. Over the decades that followed, the revered publication offered …

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  Michael Mahin

  

  Susan Sontag on Writing

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  The newly released volume of Susan Sontag’s diaries, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 (public library), from …

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  Michael Mahin

  

  Margaret Atwood's rules for writers

  The Guardian

  1 Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. 2 If both pencils break, you can do a rough sharpening job with a nail file of the metal or glass type. 3 Take …

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  Michael Mahin

  

  Jack Kerouac: 30 Cool Tips

  writingclasses.com

  Jack Kerouac was one of those writers who reinvented literature. He climbed in James Joyce's stream of consciousness car then careened down the …

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  Michael Mahin

  

  Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  If this is indeed the year of reading more and writing better, we’ve been right on course with David Ogilvy’s 10 no-nonsense tips, Henry Miller’s 11 …