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  Fail better What makes a good writer? Is writing an expression of self, or, as TS Eliot argued, 'an escape from personality'? Do novelists have a duty? Do readers? Why are there so few truly great novels?  Zadie  Smith on literature's legacy of  honourable  failure Zadie  Smith Saturday January 13, 2007 Guardian 1. The tale of Clive I want you to think of a young man called Clive. Clive is on a familiar literary mission: he wants to write the perfect novel. Clive has a lot going for him: he's intelligent and well read; he's made a study of contemporary fiction and can see clearly where his peers have gone wrong; he has read a good deal of rigorous literary theory - those elegant blueprints for novels not yet built - and is now ready to build his own unparalleled house of words. Maybe Clive even teaches novels, takes them apart and puts them back together. If writing is a craft, he has all the skills, every tool. Clive is ready. He clears out the spare roo...

  Books On Writing by Stephen King A memoir of the craft The Writing Life by Annie Dillard A beautiful meditation on the torture and exhilaration of life as a writer. Why Write A collection of great essays on 'The Craft of Fiction'. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami As much about writing as it is about running, inspirational advice about the importance of motivation, practice and persistence. Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon Collected essays about life and literature Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith A great collection of essays about literature, writing and culture, along with some more personal pieces. The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White The classic style guide, style as fresh as the day it was written. 15 Great Articles and Essays about Writing https://tetw.org/Words_and_Writing

  15 Great Articles and Essays about Writing The best essays on writing from around the net -- essays on the craft of writing by famous writers Essential Essays for Writers On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion A beautiful meditation on keeping notes that explores the heart of the writing process. Why I Write by Joan Didion Exploring the art of writing, and what it means to the author. Everything you Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes by Stephen King Short, sharp advice on everything from talent and self-criticism to having fun and entertaining your audience Write Till You Drop by Annie Dillard "Do you think I could be a writer?" "I don't know. . . . Do you like sentences?" The Nature of the Fun by David Foster Wallace "A book-in-progress is a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it'll get: the writer's complete attention." That Craft...