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Every day a word surprises me : & other quotes by writers.
Van Pelt Library PN6084.A86 E84 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors--Quotations.
- Authors.
- Genre:
- Quotations.
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Phaidon, 2018.
- Summary:
- "'Every day a word surprises me' is a quotation by the British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, and this collection is inspired by his legacy of wonder and curiosity. Its pages are filled with surprises and hard-earned advice, communicated with the eloquence and clarity that only the world's finest writers could summon"--Preface.
- Contents:
- Advice
- Audience
- Beginning
- Book
- character - Childhood
- Confessions
- Creative process
- Criticism
- Day job
- Discipline
- Drugs + alcohol
- Editing
- Food
- Grammar
- Ideas
- Influence
- Love
- Money
- Originality
- Plot
- Poetry
- Publishing
- Punctuation
- Reading
- Reading list
- Rejection
- Research
- Routine
- Self-doubt
- Sentence
- Sex
- Story
- Subject
- Success
- Technology
- Title
- Tools
- Truth
- Words
- Writer's block
- Writing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780714875811
- 0714875813
- OCLC:
- 1007073652
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