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Title:

The writer's quotebook : 500 authors on creativity, craft, and the writing life / compiled, arranged, and edited by Jim Fisher.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xii, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Authorship.--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Other Authors:

Fisher, Jim, 1939-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.

Contents:

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 Reality of Writing -- 23. Productivity -- 24. Reviews -- 25. Readers -- 26. Literary Awards -- 27. Despair -- 28. Booze -- 29. Hollywood -- 30. Fame -- Sources of Quotations.

ISBN:

9780813538822 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813538823 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62593460

LCCN:

2005035516

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)