"Timeless advice on writing from famous authors" is a massive library of celebrated writers’ timeless advice on writing — Bradbury, Woolf, Vonnegut, Calvino, DFW, and more.
In this issue:
- Marilynne Robinson: "Beauty," Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
- Stephen King: Writing and the Art of "Creative Sleep"
- Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
- Annie Dillard on Writing
- Michael Lewis: Writing, Money, and the Necessary Self-Delusion of Creativity
- Ray Bradbury: How List-Making Can Boost Your Creativity
- Italo Calvino on Writing: Insights from 40+ Years of His Letters
- Anne Lamott: Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity
- Ernest Hemingway : Writing, Knowledge, and the Danger of Ego
- Susan Sontag on Writing
- David Foster Wallace: Writing, Death, and Redemption
- Isabel Allende: Writing Brings Order to the Chaos of Life
- Stephen King: The Adverb Is Not Your Friend
- Malcolm Cowley: The Four Stages of Writing
- Henry Miller's 11 Commandments of Writing
- Advice on Writing: Collected Wisdom from Modernity's Greatest Writers
- Susan Orlean on Writing
- Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Rules for a Great Story
- Zadie Smith: 10 Rules of Writing
- John Steinbeck: 6 Tips on Writing, and a Disclaimer
- E. B. White: Why Brevity Is Not the Gold Standard for Style
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Secret of Great Writing (1938)
- E. B. White: Egoism and the Art of the Essay
- Ray Bradbury: Creative Purpose in the Face of Rejection
- Mary Karr: The Magnetism and Madness of the Written Word
- Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write With Style and the 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word (1985)
- Ann Patchett: What Now?
- Mary Gordon: The Joy of Notebooks and Writing by Hand as a Creative Catalyst
- H. P. Lovecraft: Advice to Aspiring Writers (1920)
- Henry Miller: Reflections on Writing
- David Foster Wallace: The Nature of the Fun and Why Writers Write
- Margaret Atwood: 10 Rules of Writing
- Joy Williams: Why Writers Write
- Joan Didion: Ego, Grammar, and the Impetus to Write
- David Ogilvy: 10 No-Bullshit Tips on Writing
- George Orwell: The Four Motives for Writing (1946)
- Ezra Pound: A Few Don'ts for Those Beginning to Write Verse (1913)
- Ray Bradbury: Storytelling and Human Nature (1963)
- Joseph Conrad: Writing and the Role of the Artist (1897)
- Helen Dunmore: 9 Rules of Writing
- E. B. White: The Role and Responsibility of the Writer (1969)
- Jack Kerouac: 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life
- Raymond Chandler on Writing
- Walter Benjamin: The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses
- 28-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Four People a Great Writer Must Be
- Neil Gaiman: 8 Rules of Writing
- Ana's Nin: Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity
- Neil Gaiman's Advice to Aspiring Writers
- Jorge Luis Borges on Writing: Wisdom from His Most Candid Interviews
- Herbert Spencer: The Philosophy of Style, the Economy of Attention, and the Ideal Writer (1852)
- Samuel Johnson on Writing and Creative Doggedness
- 10 Tips on Writing from Joyce Carol Oates
- Charles Bukowski on Writing and His Insane Daily Routine
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Joy of Marginalia and What Handwriting Reveals about Character
- Kurt Vonnegut: The Writer's Responsibility, the Limitations of the Brain, and Why the Universe Exists: A Rare 1974 WNYC Interview
- Ernest Hemingway on Not Writing for Free and How to Run a First-Rate Publication
- Alice Munro's Nobel Prize Interview: Writing, Women, and the Rewards of Storytelling
- How to Be a Writer: Ernest Hemingway's Advice to Aspiring Authors
- Eudora Welty: The Poetics of Place and Writing as an Explorer's Map of the Unknown
- Samuel Delany: Good Writing vs. Talented Writing
- Ana's Nin: Writing, the Future of the Novel, and How Keeping a Diary Enhances Creativity: Wisdom from a Rare 1947 Chapbook
- William Faulkner: Writing, the Purpose of Art, Working in a Brothel, and the Meaning of Life
- John Updike: Writing and Death
- Charles Bukowski Debunks the 'Tortured Genius' Myth of Creativity
- Mary Gaitskill: Why Writers Write and The Six Motives of Creativity
- Vladimir Nabokov: Writing, Reading, and the Three Qualities a Great Storyteller Must Have
- Joan Didion: Telling Stories, the Economy of Words, Starting Out as a Writer, and Facing Rejection
- Herman Melville's Daily Routine and Thoughts on the Writing Life
- William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech: The Writer as a Booster of the Human Heart
- John Updike: Making Money, How to Have a Productive Daily Routine, and the Most Important Things for Aspiring Writers to Know
- Susan Sontag : Writing, Routines, Education, and Elitism in a 1992 Recording from the 92Y Archives
- Chinua Achebe: The Meaning of Life and the Writer's Responsibility in Society
- Leonard Cohen: Creativity, Hard Work, and Why You Should Never Quit Before You Know What It Is You?re Quitting
- Ray Bradbury: What Failure Really Means, Why We Hate Work, and the Importance of Love in Creative Endeavors
- Willa Cather: Writing Through Troubled Times
- Joyce Carol Oates: What Hemingway's Early Stories Can Teach Us About Writing and the Defining Quality of Great Art
- Anthony Trollope: Witty and Wise Advice on How to Be a Successful Writer
- William Styron: Why Formal Education Is a Waste of Time for Writers
- Madeleine L'Engle: Creativity, Censorship, Writing, and the Duty of Children's Books
- Saul Bellow: How Writers and Artists Save Us from the 'Moronic Inferno' of Our Time
- Schopenhauer on Style
- Mary Oliver: The Mystery of the Human Psyche, the Secret of Great Poetry, and How Rhythm Makes Us Come Alive
- Flannery O'Connor: Why the Grotesque Appeals to Us, Plus a Rare Recording of Her Reading
- Annie Dillard: The Art of the Essay and Narrative Nonfiction vs. Poetry and Short Stories
- C.S. Lewis: The 3 Ways of Writing for Children and the Key to Authenticity in All Writing
- Nietzsche: 10 Rules for Writers
- William Faulkner: Writing, the Human Dilemma, and Why We Create
- David Foster Wallace: The Redemptive Power of Reading and the Future of Writing in the Age of Information
- George Orwell: Writing, How to Counter the Mindless Momentum of Language, and the Four Questions a Great Writer Must Ask Herself
- Zadie Smith: The Psychology of the Two Types of Writers
- Italo Calvino: The Art of Quickness, Digression as a Hedge Against Death, and the Key to Great Writing
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Where Ideas Come From, the 'Secret' of Great Writing, and the Trap of Marketing Your Work
- Gabriel Garc'a M'rquez on His Unlikely Beginnings as a Writer
- Lewis Carroll: How to Work Through Difficulty and His Three Tips for Overcoming Creative Block
- Roald Dahl: How Illness Emboldens Creativity: A Moving Letter to His Bedridden Mentor
- Robert Frost: How to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay
- Mark Strand: The Heartbeat of Creative Work and the Artist's Task to Bear Witness to the Universe
- Virginia Woolf: Writing and Self-Doubt
- E.B. White: How to Write for Children and the Writer's Responsibility to All Audiences
- John Steinbeck: The Diary as a Tool of Discipline, a Hedge Against Self-Doubt, and a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work