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The writer's quotebook : 500 authors on creativity, craft, and the writing life
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- Creator
- compiled, arranged, and edited by Jim Fisher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813538822, 0813538823
- OCLC
- ocm62593460
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.
- Introduction -- Part One: The Creative Process -- 1. Creativity -- 2. Talent -- 3. The Difficulty of Writing -- 4. Why Writers Write -- 5. Writer's Block -- 6. The Writer's Personality -- Part Two: Craft -- 7. Outlining -- 8. Plots and Plotting -- 9. Setting -- 10. Point of View -- 11. Characterization -- 12. Dialogue -- 13. Description -- 14. Style -- 15. Rewriting -- 16. Titles -- Part Three: The Writing Life -- 17. The Writing Life: In General -- 18. Getting Started -- 19. Creative Writing Classes, Workshops, and Writer's Conferences -- 20. Rejection -- 21. Work Habits, Rituals, and Daily Word Quotas -- 22. Money, the Day Job and the Economic Realities of Writing -- 23. Productivity -- 24. Reviews -- 25. Readers -- 26. Literary Awards -- 27. Despair -- 28. Booze -- 29. Hollywood -- 30. Fame -- Sources of Quotations