Advice from the Masters
If you want to write a book, or just write better, you can learn a lot from those who have mastered the craft. That’s why I post selections of “Advice from the Masters” sharing the thoughts of great writers. Below is a list of Advice from the Masters posts.
- Harlan Coben
- Susan Sontag
- Raymond Chandler
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Christopher Hitchens
- Toni Morrison
- Stephen King
- Many Masters (on revision)
- Steven Johnson
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bill Bryson
- Jeffrey Deaver
- Jim Collins
- James Patterson
- Charles Dickens
- Peter Drucker
- Louis L’Amour
- Tom Clancy
- Andy Rooney
- Thomas Berger
- Anne McCaffrey
- Michael Crichton
- Ben Bova
- Stephen Covey
- Claude Hopkins
- Ray Bradbury
- Herman Melville
- Nora Ephron
- Thomas Sowell
- David Ogilvy
- Elmore Leonard
- Ayn Rand
- Barbara Tuchman
- William Faulkner
- Stephen Ambrose
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Anton Chekhov
- James Michener
- Reynolds Price
- Jim Kouzes
- C. J. Cherryh
- Mark Twain
- Maxwell Perkins
- John le Carre
- William Zinsser
- John Pierce
Wally,
Super. Highly motivating stuff – and boy, does writing require motivation.
Ken Carroll
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