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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7668 times as writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 326,149 ratings — published 2002
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 5713 times as writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 114,225 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4576 times as writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,191 ratings — published 1918
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3459 times as writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,550 ratings — published 1976
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 2758 times as writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,353 ratings — published 1986
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2160 times as writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,891 ratings — published 1973
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1557 times as writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,974 ratings — published 1997
The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 1464 times as writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,728 ratings — published 1989
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1442 times as writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,938 ratings — published 2002
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 1406 times as writing)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,105 ratings — published 2006
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 1396 times as writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,674 ratings — published 2005
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1388 times as writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,973 ratings — published 2006
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 1352 times as writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,223 ratings — published 1993
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1341 times as writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,211 ratings — published 2002
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1341 times as writing)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,880 ratings — published 2003
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1341 times as writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,429 ratings — published 2007
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1338 times as writing)
avg rating 4.49 — 14,509 ratings — published 2018
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 1292 times as writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,485 ratings — published 1998
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1217 times as writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,524 ratings — published 1992
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
by (shelved 1177 times as writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,009 ratings — published 2004
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1147 times as writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,366 ratings — published 2014
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (Writers Helping Writers, #1)
by (shelved 1126 times as writing)
avg rating 4.53 — 6,443 ratings — published 2012
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
by (shelved 1093 times as writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,762 ratings — published 2016
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1004 times as writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,690 ratings — published 2012
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 945 times as writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 239,965 ratings — published 2015
No Plot? No Problem! (Paperback)
by (shelved 927 times as writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,312 ratings — published 2004
Stein on Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 874 times as writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,853 ratings — published 1995
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 862 times as writing)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,138 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 850 times as writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,380 ratings — published 1984
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 821 times as writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,729 ratings — published 2012
Outlining Your Novel (Helping Writers Become Authors, #1)
by (shelved 802 times as writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,900 ratings — published 2011
Characters & Viewpoint (Paperback)
by (shelved 760 times as writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,738 ratings — published 1988
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 752 times as writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,768 ratings — published 2016
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 698 times as writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 348,709 ratings — published 2012
Becoming a Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 696 times as writing)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,376 ratings — published 1934
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface (Paperback)
by (shelved 682 times as writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,145 ratings — published 2016
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 678 times as writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,109 ratings — published 1949
Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level (Paperback)
by (shelved 678 times as writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,102 ratings — published 2001
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 677 times as writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,305 ratings — published 2013
Story Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 668 times as writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,329 ratings — published 2011
On Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 654 times as writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,927 ratings — published 1984
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 653 times as writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,921 ratings — published 1990
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 641 times as writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,450 ratings — published 1998
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 131,726 ratings — published 1929
Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 622 times as writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,533 ratings — published 2013
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 607 times as writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,599 ratings — published 1990
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 597 times as writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,449 ratings — published 2013
Several Short Sentences About Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 596 times as writing)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,679 ratings — published 2012
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,043 ratings — published 1987
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 584 times as writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 277,318 ratings — published 1929
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
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