Writing

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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Edit Your Way: Plot Twist: Forget the Writing “Rules"
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Staying Gold: The Oral History of The Outsiders
Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense
The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945
The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
Memorial Days
Death and the Gardener
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Notes to John
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
El peligro de estar cuerda
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Joyride: A Memoir
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Didion and Babitz
People Like Us
On Writing by Stephen  KingThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac GlyerBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Bird by Bird
The Elements of Style
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
The Writing Life
The War of Art
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Cassandra Clare
We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that ...more
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

J.D. Salinger
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. ...more
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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