Review
"It's a perfect book for both beginning and advanced writing students. It's wonderfully inspirational and can be coupled with just about any teaching technique."-- Erin Cressida Wilson, Duke University
"The finest book written on the art and spirit of writing."-- Shann Ferch, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
"I have consistently used "If You Want to Write" for eight years now in English 241, and the students have loved it every semester."-- Mel Livatino, Truman College (Chicago, IL)
""If You Want to Write" does a superb job of reassuring student writers whose schooling has often robbed them of any confidence in their own voices. Nothing else I know does a better job of explaining to first-year college students the necessity of passion in the writer."-- Shelby Grantham, Dartmouth College
"I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'"-- Andrei Codrescu, poet, author, and National Public Radio commentator
"I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her."-- "Women's Review of Books"
Synopsis
Discusses writing and the creative process by encouraging freedom and truthfulness in written expression in order to avoid automatic, uninteresting compositions.