The Quotable Writer
Subtitle: Words of Wisdom from Mark Twain, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Eric Jong, and More
Publisher: North Ridge Books (originally McGraw-Hill)
Published: March 3, 2000
Place of publication: Lake Forest, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780071355766
Description: Humorous, thought-provoking, and inspirational quotations about the writing life and the business of publishing. The foreward was written by David A. Fryxell, the former editorial director of Writer's Digest.
Notes: The expanded second edition will be published as an e-book in July 2009.
Table of contents: title: Biography, Blurbs, Books, Censorship, Classics, Controversy, Creativity, Critics, Editors, Fame, Footnotes, Freelance Writers, Genius, Grammar, History (The Writing of), Hoaxes, How to Get Published (Advice), Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Insults, Investigative Reporting, Irony, Language, Literature, Newswriting and Journalism, Novels, Originality Perseverance, Plagiarism, Poetry, Posterity, Publicity and Marketing, Publishers and Publishing, Publishing Ethics, Quotes and Misquotes, Readers and Reading, Rejection, Research and Scholarship, Revisions, Satire, Screenwriting, Self-Deception, Self-Publishing, Spelling, Success and Failure, Talent, Television Writing, Wit, Word Economy, Writers and Writing, Index.