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If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit (Paperback)

by Brenda Ueland (Author)
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  • Paperback: 179 pages
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.; 2nd Ed edition (2 Dec 1938)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1555972608
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555972608
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 16.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 626,243 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enormously inspiring, 14 Mar 2005
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This book was written in 1938 but it is timeless. I read it as an inspiration to start writing, but it is in fact a book about life in general. It makes you stop and think about how you are living your life and whether you are doing the thing that you feel most passionate about, whatever that thing may be. Brenda Ueland is an inspiration - there should be more teachers like her. I borrowed this book from a library but will be buying it and recommending it to anyone who cares to listen!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on writing and creativity I have ever read!, 26 May 2009
By A. F. Jankovic (Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
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I work as a professional writer (journalism and copywriting mainly) but my creative writing took a nosedive years ago and I have been struggling to resurrect it for ages. Consequently, I am always on the look out for books which spark off the creative fire within, and needless to say my bookshelves are groaning under the weight of those which I have bought, read and not yet read over the years.

I stumbled across the reviews for this title and thought it was worth a shot, and have to say it is quite simply the best book on writing that I have ever read (and I've read loads!). It absolutely worked for me and I have spewed out thousands of words since I read it without stopping. They are not all necessarily good, but as the book explains, that's not the point.

Buy it now without hesitation, and get on with writing!
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