The writing life

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Critics Praise The Writing Life "A kind of spiritual Strunk & White, a small and brílliant guidebook to the landscape of a writer's task Dillard brings the same passión and connective intelligence to this narrative as she has to her other work" -Boston Globe 'Tor nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague" -Chicago Tribüné "Her book is.. .scattered with pearls. Each reader will be attracted to different bright parts Gracefully and simply told, these little stories illuminate the writing life Her advice to writers is encouraging and invigorating." -Cleveland Plain-Dealer "The Writing Life is a spare volume...that has the power and force of a detonating bomb A book bursting with metaphors and prose bristling with incident." -Detroit News "We may fairly ask that a book about writing be, itself, a work of art. And... Tovább

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Critics Praise The Writing Life "A kind of spiritual Strunk & White, a small and brílliant guidebook to the landscape of a writer's task Dillard brings the same passión and connective intelligence to this narrative as she has to her other work" -Boston Globe 'Tor nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague" -Chicago Tribüné "Her book is.. .scattered with pearls. Each reader will be attracted to different bright parts Gracefully and simply told, these little stories illuminate the writing life Her advice to writers is encouraging and invigorating." -Cleveland Plain-Dealer "The Writing Life is a spare volume...that has the power and force of a detonating bomb A book bursting with metaphors and prose bristling with incident." -Detroit News "We may fairly ask that a book about writing be, itself, a work of art. And that is what Dillard offers Anyone hoping to see inside the process of literary artistry is unlikely to find a more lucid, sensitive or poetic view." -Philadelphia Inquirer "The Writing Life is as síim and potent as the Tao Te Ching, that ancient Chinese manual on the art of living You want to copy out what it says, tape it to your typewriter, fix it with a heavy magnet to your fridge. Her words give courage. They make the daring life seem worthwhile." --USA Today Vissza