The Quotable Writer: Words of Wisdom from Mark Twain, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Erica Jong, Toni Morrison, Michael Korda, Herman Melville, George Orwell, pearl

by Gordon, William A.

• ISBN13: 9780071355766
• ISBN10: 0071355766
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Taps the power of words for the wordsmiths. Presents roughly a thousand of the best things ever written or said about writers and writing. DLC: Authorship--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Introduction	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Biography	1	(2)
Blurbs	3	(2)
Books	5	(2)
Censorship	7	(4)
Classics	11	(1)
Controversy	11	(1)
Creativity	12	(1)
Critics	13	(8)
Editors	21	(3)
Fame	24	(1)
Footnotes	25	(1)
Freelance Writers	25	(1)
Genius	26	(2)
Grammar	28	(1)
History, The Writing of	28	(6)
Hoaxes	34	(2)
How to Get Published (Advice)	36	(4)
Humor	40	(5)
Ideas	45	(1)
Inspiration	45	(1)
Insults, Memorable	46	(1)
Investigative Reporting	47	(3)
Irony	50	(1)
Language	51	(2)
Literature	53	(6)
Newswriting and Journalism	59	(7)
Novels	66	(8)
Originality	74	(2)
Perseverance	76	(1)
Plagiarism	77	(2)
Poetry	79	(3)
Posterity, Writing for	82	(2)
Publicity and Marketing	84	(9)
Publishers and Publishing	93	(8)
Publishing, Ethics in	101	(2)
Publishing, Scholarly	103	(2)
Quotes and Misquotes	105	(2)
Readers and Reading	107	(1)
Rejection	108	(6)
Research and Scholarship	114	(3)
Revisions	117	(4)
Satire	121	(4)
Screenwriting	125	(6)
Self-Deception	131	(2)
Self-Publishing	133	(5)
Spelling	138	(1)
Success and Failure	139	(4)
Talent	143	(2)
Television, Writing for	145	(2)
Wit	147	(1)
Word Economy	148	(1)
Writers and Writing	149	(26)
Index	175