Title: Writing Changes Everything: The 627 Best Things Anyone Ever Said About Writing
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0312154321
ISBN 13: 9780312154325
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 11 ounces

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This uncommonly inspiring and lively book collects the insights of novelists, short-story writers, biographers, playwrights, and poets, along with literary agents, editors, and publishers (and an occasional dancer, movie director, physicist, or sculptor), all sounding off on writing and the creative life.

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Deborah Brodie is a book editor who has made a sideline occupation of collecting quotes about writing and creativity. The 627 "best" appear in this pretty little volume, Writing Changes Everything, accompanied by charming illustrations. At turns witty and pensive and contradictory, these literary nuggets come from unlikely sources such as Rudolf Nureyev, Morrissey, Albert Einstein, and Satchel Paige. The quotes that sing the clearest come from expected authorities; among them are Mark Twain ("The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning-bug."), Samuel Johnson ("Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."), Iris Murdoch ("Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."), and Erica Jong ("We make up the ocean--then fall in. But we also write the life raft.").

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