On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft819 reviews Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000 Don't wait for the muse...show up every day + really good stuff + Impassioned instruction from the King of horror + On Writing by Stephen King + Great Resource             Aspects of the Novel14 reviews E.M. Forster Harvest Books, 1956 Nothing Else Like It + Personal Vision of the Genre + mostly insightful + Genius             Art and Soul: Notes on Creating1 review Audrey Flack Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 A good book for artists This book has brief quotes by the author and others on art and creativity. The author is very encouraging and enlightening. It's not made for reding through at one sitting; rather to look through now and then. Very thoughtful!             A Moveable Feast145 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1996 An Opinion Humbly Submitted + Hemingway at his Best + The Writer's Life + Paris of the Lost Generation!             It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)3 reviews Saul Bellow Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995 A very valuable collection of essays + 20th century man. + A vitality of ideas It All Adds Up, a collection of essays, written with Saul Bellow's great human insight, literary qualities and dry wit. Of course for everybody whom have read Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, The Adventures of Augie March and Henderson the Rain King should just run and get hold of a copy of this book, ...             The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist: A Book for Writers, Teachers, Publishers, and Anyone Else ...5 reviews Thomas McCormack Paul Dry Books, 2006 Essential critiquing tool. + Thinkers and Writers + A superb handbook for fiction writers + Inspiration for Editors and an Eye-opener for Authors and Publishers + A Call-to-Arms for Editing             On Becoming a Novelist27 reviews John Gardner W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 Every writer should read this book + The One Book Novelists Need to Read + Concise, Sympathetic, Sage Advice for the Aspiring Novelist + Every aspiring writer should read this             A Writer's Notebook1 review W. Somerset Maugham Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949 Gems from a Master This quasi-journal of Maugham's thoughts, travels, philosophies and bits of literature is facinating on several levels. For an avid Maugham fan, you can see the germination of the ideas and the travels that became his novels. The charming, brilliant and matter-of-fact way in which Maugham says ...             Critica y ficcion Ricardo Piglia Anagrama, 2001 Este libro es un tratado de poetica escrito bajo la forma de conversaciones, un mapa de la realidad segun la ve el que probablemente es el mas destacado autor argentino vivo. Extraordinario narrador y critico insoslayable, rinde tributo a Faulkner, examina con lucidez textos de Arlt, Borges y Cortazar, reflexiona sobre el genero policial, la narracion en el cine, el trabajo editorial, sus inicios ...             Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature14 reviews Erich Auerbach Princeton University Press, 2003 Starting point + the two streams of narrative . . . + Productive Time Spent While in Exile + Truth *is* in the Whole + defining work of western literary criticism             El Escritor y Sus Fantasmas Ernesto Sabato Editorial Seix Barral, 2003             The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts4 reviews David Lodge Penguin (Non-Classics), 1994 This book is a delight. + Delightful + lovely but superficial introduction to some great books I discovered this book 3 or 4 years ago and have read it at least three times -- parts of it more often than that. I use it as one of several texts in creative writing workshops. Lodge's essays are witty, engaging and smart, and the brief excerpts at the beginning of each chapter are wonderful ...             La Verdad de las Mentiras (Punto De Lectura)1 review Mario Vargas Llosa Punto de Lectura, 2003 Essays, a guide, and the truth of lies .... "La verdad de las mentiras" contains many essays written by Vargas Llosa, regarding books that made a permanent impression on him. For example, he wrote essays on "The heart of darkness" (Joseph Conrad), "Dubliners" (James Joyce), "Manhattan Transfer" (John Dos Passos), "Mrs. Dalloway" (Virginia ...             Revising fiction: A handbook for writers2 reviews David Madden Barnes & Noble Books, 2002 Revising is commplicated + It's good but... Revising is complicated enough; however, if one is unable to identify the problem, revising becomes impossible. Many writing problems have to do with structural errors. Madden's book elegantly and clearly defines a myriad of structural elements that might be at the root of such errors and poses ...             The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers50 reviews John Gardner Vintage, 1991 A Brilliant Teacher + "The writer who can't distinguish truth from a peanut butter sandwich can never write good fiction." + Target Audience: Literary Writers, But Genre Can Gain Too + Vividness, Psychic Distance, and Word Rhythms + Happy Customer             Letters to a Young Poet71 reviews Rainer Maria Rilke Dover Publications, 2002 This book is fantastic! + Quotable wisdom for the ages + Great condition, lame translation + Great, impassioned advice + Letters to a Young Poet             The Complete Notebooks of Henry James Henry James Oxford University Press, USA, 1987 The Complete Notebooks of Henry James opens a wide, clear window into the private workshop of America's master novelist, the architect of modernism in fiction. It is a volume that deserves to be called definitive. Assembled and edited by Leon Edel, James's much-acclaimed prizewinning biographer, and Lyall H. Powers, critic and editor of James's letters to Edith Wharton, this book includes ...             The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebook Paul Auster Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997 Now including The Red Notebook--a collection of autobiographical sketches on coincidence--The Art Of Hunger undermines our accepted notions about literature. Auster's meditations on writing and artists leads us to a better understanding of the toll of writing.             El Concepto de Ficcion Juan Jose Saer Ariel, 1997             La Verdad de las Mentiras (Punto De Lectura)1 review Mario Vargas Llosa Punto de Lectura, 2003 Essays, a guide, and the truth of lies .... "La verdad de las mentiras" contains many essays written by Vargas Llosa, regarding books that made a permanent impression on him. For example, he wrote essays on "The heart of darkness" (Joseph Conrad), "Dubliners" (James Joyce), "Manhattan Transfer" (John Dos Passos), "Mrs. Dalloway" (Virginia ...