- Title: The Writer’s Home Companion An Anthology of the World’s Best Writing Advice, from Keats to Kunitz
- Edited and with an Introduction by: Joan Bolker, E D. D.
- Year Published: 1997 (An Owl Book, Henry Holt and Company)
- Year Purchased: 2001/2002
- Source: Unknown
- About: I revere books, both for what they contain and for what they symbolize. As a result, I can count on the fingers of one hand how many books I have ever highlighted passages in or written notes in the margin of, including textbooks. ‘The Writer’s Home Companion’ is one of the exceptions. Why? It contains so much stellar, spot-on advice for writers by writers. The kind of advice that you will actually heed and apply. The kind of advice that you probably already know, deep-down, but keep pushing away because that is the easy thing to do. The kind of advice that is at once remedial and advanced, that simultaneously disciplines and frees. The kind of advice that we all need to remember as we go about the task and joy that is writing.
- Motivation: Who could resist practical advice by the likes of John Keats, Bernard Shaw, Ursula Le Guin and Natalie Goldberg all in the same volume? Not this girl.
- Times Read: Countless
- Random Excerpt/Page xi: “Writing is a solitary sport, but none of us can do it without good company at crucial moments. Most of the writers I’ve known are pulled and tugged between their wish for the quiet aloneness necessary for their work, and their longings for human connections. We write both to express ourselves and to be heard by others, but first we have to learn how to tolerate ourselves as we work at our writing. The authors of the pieces collected here share honestly, and often humorously, their thoughts and feelings about writing and the writer’s life, and can provide you with the good company you need to get on with your own work.”
- Happiness Scale: 10
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This sounds like an excellent resource. Thanks for recommending it.
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You’re welcome!
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I’m always in the mood for another great book on writing. Thanks for the rec!
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You are quite welcome! It’s a very practical yet inspirational read.
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