Advice to writers
Subtitle: a compendium of quotes, anecdotes, and writerly wisdom from a dazzling array of literary lights
By: compiled and edited by Jon Winokur.
Contributors: Winokur, Jon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Authorship -- Quotations, maxims, etc.; Authors -- Quotations.
Description: "Here from more than four hundred of the world's most celebrated writers and booksmiths - from T. S. Eliot and Eudora Welty to Cynthia Ozick and P. J. O'Rourke - is a treasury of useful advice on the world and work of writing.

Advice to Writers includes priceless counsel on subjects ranging from writer's block and writing dialogue to dealing with agents and editors and appearing on television; from work habits and procrastination rituals to drinking on the job; from success, money, and fame to the lack of one or all of them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index.