Some
Good Books on Writing
Listed in no
particular order. Most are available through
Amazon.
Aristotle,
Poetics
Ranier
Maria Rilke,
Letters
to a Young Poet
Eudora
Welty,
One Writer's Beginnings;
The
Eye of the Story
Carl
Jung,
The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
James
Joyce,
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
V.
S.
Pritchett,
Turgenev: The Gentle Barbarian;
Chekov
Virginia
Woolf,
A Room of One's Own
Flannery
O'Connor,
The Habit of Being
Joyce
Carol
Oates,
(Woman) Writer
George
Plimpton,
ed, Writers at Work: The
Paris Review
Joseph
Campbell,
The Masks of the Gods: Creative Mythology
Henry
James,
The
Lesson of the Master
Cynthia
Ozick,
Art
& Ardor (The Lesson of the Master)
Leo
Tolstoy,
What Is Art?;
Tolstoy's Diaries
W.H.
Auden,
The
Dyer's Hand
Harvey
Gross, ed.,
The Structure of
Verse
Annie
Dillard,
The
Writing Life
Joseph
Conrad,
Intro
to The Nigger of the Narcisssus
Mark
Twain,
The
Autobiography of
Philip
Roth,
The
Ghost Writer
Robert
Grudin,
Time
and the Art of Living
Marie Louise von
Franz,
Evil
and Shadow in Fairytales;
The
Feminine in Fairytales
W.
Somerset
Maugham,
A Writer's
Notebook
Donald Hall,
Life
Work
E.
M. Forster,
Aspects
of the Novel
Michael
Kreyling, Author and
Agent
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