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The Oscar Wilde Lover’s Year 2018: Diary of Literary Quotes: A Page per Week

Born on 16th October 1854, in Dublin, Oscar Wilde the flamboyant author, playwright and poet wrote a novel, several plays and countless children’s stories.  His satirical wit was well known in Victorian England, but his infamous incarceration in Reading Gaol influenced his later work with themes of isolation and tragedy. Many of Wilde’s best loved plays, stories, poems and lesser known essays are quoted in The Oscar Wilde Lover’s Year, and the mood ranges as much as his own work between inspirational, tragic, political and bitingly witty.  If you weren’t a lover of Wilde’s work before 2018, you will be by 2019.   – High quality writing paper – Seasonal and relevant quote for each week of 2018    – Handy size (6 by 9 inches)    – Matt finish paperback

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Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights

In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.”The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.” –A.J. Liebling

There are at least as many theories about writing as there are writers to expound them. In Advice to Writers Jon Winokur has collected some of the best bons mots ever penned on the literary life. In chapters covering such diverse topics as agents, publishers, critics, and process, Winokur lets writers speak for themselves–and often the advice is contradictory: “The professional guts a book through–in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve,” John Gregory Dunne opines. “It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life,” André Gide ripostes. There is advice on grammar and style, on dialogue, plot, and character, and also on topics such as occupational hazards and drink (surely a subset of those hazards). “Write first, drink later,” Patrick McGrath suggests. “To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.” (Poet and essayist Philip Larkin, on the other hand, advises, “Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.”)

Novices looking for practical information on the nuts and bolts of the business may not find it here. On the other hand, advice from the likes of David Remnick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Maxwell Perkins, Isaac Asimov, Samuel Johnson, Calvin Trillin, P.D. James, and many, many other professional scribes can serve to inspire. At the very least, this potpourri of words to the wise will keep the incipient writer amused between drafts. –Alix Wilber

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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases. By Greenville Kleiser. Teachers, Writers, Authors and Scriptwriters. Unblock Your Writers Block. Using; Useful and Significant Phrases. The most significant publication aimed at teachers, writers, authors and scriptwriters to be released in decades. Unleash your potential. There is no better way in which to develop the mental qualities of clearness, accuracy, and precision, and to improve and enlarge the intellectual powers generally, than by regular and painstaking study of judiciously selected phrases and literary expressions. Includes; Useful Phrases; Significant Phrases; Felicitous phrases; Impressive phrases; Prepositional phrases; Preposition “by”; Preposition “in”; Preposition “into”; Preposition “to”; Preposition “with”; Business phrases; Literary expressions; Striking similes; Conversational phrases; Public speaking phrases; Miscellaneous phrases;

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Walt Disney, from Reader to Storyteller: Essays on the Literary Inspirations

Walt Disney, best known as a filmmaker, had perhaps a greater skill as a reader. While many would have regarded Felix Salten’s Bambi and Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio as too somber for family-oriented films, he saw their possibilities. He appealed to his audience by selecting but then transforming familiar stories. Many of the tales he chose to adapt to film became some of the most read books in America. Although much published research has addressed his adaptation process–often criticizing his films for being too saccharine or not true to their literary sources–little has been written on him as a reader: what he read, what he liked, his reading experiences and the books that influenced him. This collection of 15 fresh essays and one classic addresses Disney as a reader and shows how his responses to literature fueled his success. Essays discuss the books he read, the ones he adapted to film and the ways in which he demonstrated his narrative ability. Exploring his literary connections to films, nature documentaries, theme park creations and overall creative vision, the contributors provide insight into Walt Disney’s relationships with authors, his animation staff and his audience.

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Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief

The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the English language who have believed. Most of those included converted to Roman Catholicism and some to Anglicanism. The list includes Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Graham Greene, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien.