First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
By: Joe Moran
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences ... …
Want to Read $ 8.99"Poetic emotion, resonance and power is in the vowels/vowel sounds"-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
"Poetic emotion, resonance and power is in the vowels/vowel sounds"-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
"Sentences are our writing commons, the shared ground where every writer walks."-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
"Sentences are our writing commons, the shared ground where every writer walks."-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
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1. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
By: Natalie Goldberg
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her b… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- self help
"keep your hand moving"-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Write about “leaving."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Begin with “I remember."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"We learn writing by doing it."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
2. The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
By: Mark Forsyth
4.36
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The idiosyncratic, erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of … read more
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- communication
- self help
- language
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- audiobook
"I’ve been too fucking busy, and vice versa."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. It was about a “green great dragon."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
3. Becoming a Writer
By: John Gardner , Dorothea Brande
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Refreshingly slim, beautifully written and deliciously elegant, Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer… read more
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- language
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- self help
"Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour."-John Gardner, Becoming a Writer
"Every book, every editor, every teacher will tell you that the great key to success in authorship is originality"-John Gardner, Becoming a Writer
"Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness."-John Gardner, Becoming a Writer
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us fr…"-John Gardner, Becoming a Writer
4. 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: Lisa Cron
4.21
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story , this writing guide rev… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- audiobook
"We don't turn to story to escape reality. We turn to story to navigate reality."-Lisa Cron, 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)
"In a nutshell: A story is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes internally as a result."-Lisa Cron, 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)
"But the simple fact remains that without the first half of the story, there can be no second half. The first half establishes where the problem came from and who the protagonist is to begin with, so …"-Lisa Cron, 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)
5. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- audiobook
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
6. Several Short Sentences About Writing
By: Verlyn Klinkenborg
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education… read more
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- communication
- language
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- audiobook
"People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter."-Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing
7. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
By: Francine Prose
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
In her entertaining and edifying New York Timesbestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites … read more
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8. Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics
By: Joli Jensen
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to… read more
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9. Leading Change
By: John P. Kotter
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
John Kotter's now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become… read more
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10. Essayism
By: Brian Dillon
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
The essay is a venerable form that may well be the genre of the future. It has its origins in a mod… read more
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11. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
By: Stanley Fish
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller "Both deeper and more democratic thanThe Elements of Style" - Adam Hasle… read more
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12. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
13. Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
By: Scott H. Young
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for p… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
By: Jane Alison
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- audiobook
"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
15. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
By: Kashmir Hill
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
16. Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself
By: Chuck Wendig
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Finally--a book of writing advice that accounts for all of the messy, perverse, practical, and inex… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- writing
- crafts
- self help
17. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
By: Greta Thunberg
4.40
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
"The transformation we need in order to stay below 1.5 C or even 2 C of warming may not be politically possible today. But we are the ones who determine what will be politically possible tomorrow."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
18. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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- communication
- self help
- nonfiction
- writing
- business
- audiobook
"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
20. Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why do we write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the worry tha… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- writing
- audiobook
21. First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
By: Joe Moran
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences ... … read more
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- communication
- self help
- academia
- language
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- business
- audiobook
"Poetic emotion, resonance and power is in the vowels/vowel sounds"-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
"Sentences are our writing commons, the shared ground where every writer walks."-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
"Speech is more intimate in its syntax than writing. It has shorter clauses and more no-content words to link these clauses up. Writing is denser, with longer clauses and more content words. Speech is…"-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
"The act is its own reward; do not expect applause. You must be willing to keep writing in the absence of any evidence that anyone is reading. And no use complaining, either, since no one asked you to…"-Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
