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.
- Ludmilla Jordanova
- Charles Bock
- Bruce Sterling
- Christine Jenkins
- Raymond Tallis
- Helen Sword
- Christie Henry
- Heidi Oran
- Ryan Holiday
- Ali Luke
- Mark Collier
- Mark Twain
- Louise Wiles
- James Stavridis
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Isaac Asimov
- Katherine Boo
- Ken Metzler
- Jimmy Breslin
- Shawn Coyne
- James Patterson
- Richard Thaler
- Seth Godin
- Kevin Purdy
- Tracy Kidder
- Joshua Foer
- John Grisham
- Michael Lewis
- Mary Norris
- Laini Taylor
- Bill Taylor
- Chip Bell
- Tim Harford
- Sam Kean
- Lacy Boggs
- Julie Reynolds
- Flynn Meaney
- Jim Collins (III)
- Dorie Clark
- Susan Sontag
- Jared Diamond
- Cass Sunstein
- Steve Pavlina
- Richard Dawkins
- Lynda Gratton
- Dale Carnegie
- Steven Pinker
- Scott Adams
- Scott Berkun
- Jimmy Cannon
- Shane Parrish
- Liane Davey
- Nancy Cooper
- Josh Bernoff
- Michael McLaughlin
- Andrew Sobel
- Gene Roddenberry
- Stephen Key
- Mark Schaefer
- Joan Didion
- Kristi Hedges
- Jacqui Banaszynski
- Katherine Lanpher
- David Halberstam
- Jonathan Gottschall
- Lee Gutkind
- Charles Handy’s Mother
- Gay Talese
- Ken Blanchard
- Hilary Mantel
- John McPhee
- Bridget Quigg
- Jeff Goins
- Charles Duhigg
- Leonard Bernstein
- David Dye
- Karin Hurt
- David Brooks
- Deepak Malhotra
- Greg McKeown
- Andy Grove
- Michael Bungay Stanier
- Pat Conroy (In Memoriam)
- E. B. White
- Harper Lee
- Ray Stannard Baker
- Anton Chekov
- John Caples
- Daniel Boorstin
- Anne Tyler
- J. K. Rowling
- Ernest Hemingway
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Nathan Englander
- Tim O’Brien
- Willa Cather
- Henry Miller
- Don Murray
- William Gibson
- Vincent Bugliosi
- Bruce Henderson
- David McCullough
- Herman Wouk
- Bill Jensen
- Jackie Collins (in memoriam)
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Lisa Cron
- Art Petty
- Chris Edmonds
- Karin Hurt
- Julie Winkle Giulioni
- Jesse Lyn Stoner
- Stephen Lynch
- E.L. Doctorow (In Memoriam)
- Mike Figliuolo
- Jeff Bezos
- Oliver Sacks
- Walter Isaacson
- Robert Heller
- William Safire
- Agatha Christie
- William Zinsser (in memoriam)
- Howard Gardner
- Ken Blanchard
- Michael Lewis
- C. S. Lewis
- Steven Pressfield
- Thomas Wolfe
- William Faulkner
- Elie Wiesel
- Peter Drucker
- Martin Luther
- Mickey Spillane
- Voltaire
- David Carr
- Laura Kasischke
- Colleen McCullough
- Jackie Collins
- Ben H Winters
- Neil Gaiman
- Bob McDill
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- David Mitchell
- Grace Hopper
- Bob Ryan
- E. L. Doctorow
- Margaret Atwood
- E. O. Wilson
- Seth Godin
- Harlan Coben
- Susan Sontag
- Raymond Chandler
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Christopher Hitchens
- Toni Morrison
- Stephen King
- Stephen King II
- Many Masters (on revision)
- Steven Johnson
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bill Bryson
- Jeffrey Deaver
- Jim Collins
- Jim Collins (II)
- 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
- Herman Melville (II)
- 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
- Dylan Thomas
- John le Carre
- William Zinsser
- William Zinsser II
- John Pierce
- David Ogilvy II
- Bette Midler
- Stanley Schmidt
- Tom Clancy II
- Don Deffner
- Neil Gaiman
- Jim Blasingame
- Winston Churchill
- Joseph Campbell
- Steve Jobs
- Fairfax Cone
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Jack London
- Tracy Kidder
- Somerset Maugham
- Thomas Mann
- Maya Angelou
- Roger Schank
- John Steinbeck
- Ally Carter
- William E. Blundell
- Brian Clark
- Marcus Buckingham
- John Updike
- George Orwell
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Steve Martin
- Bernard Malamud
- Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Bob Sutton
- Matthew Arnold
- Sandra Brown
- Peter Thiel
- Charles Caleb Colton
