A Writer's Commonplace Book

By Rosemary Friedman

In effect the personal notebook of a distinguished and highly individualistic novelist and writer, this is an eclectic collection of more than 1,000 short quotations that have struck a chord with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843172275
• ISBN13: 9781843172277
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

and for the reader too

This is a small book filled with 249 pages of quotations mainly from writers. The quotations are classified under subject headings such as "On writers and writing" intending, I suppose to let readers know a bit more about the people who produce the source of their enjoyment. Gabriel Garcia Marquez contributed "One of the first things you learn as a writer is that you write what you can, not what you want." Under "Literary Endeavour" we find Vikram Seth's "The great thing about not having studied literature is that you don't think obscurity is profound." Under "ON Knowledge, Discovery & Travel" we have Isaiah Berlin's "Intellectuals are people who are simply interested in ideas...". The total of eight chapters include "On Life and Death", "On Creativity and Art", "On the Human Condition", and On Random Thoughts". Each has its share of a few mundane examples, but mainly pithy and witty ones that one might likely want to use as a dash of spice in conversation or as a fleeting reference in one's writing.