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Best Books on Writing
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About Best Books on Writing
Welcome to Best Books on Writing – your resource for writing inspiration! Looking for famous quotes about writing? Need a reference book on publishing or how to write a book? Need a daily writing prompt to jump start your day and get the creative juices flowing? Whether you are looking for quotes from Mark Twain or the latest information on indie publishing, we are your one-stop writing resource.
Writing Quotes
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that mankind has invented yet. Psychology and X-rays bring up some portentous shadows, but for the full parfum and effluvia of being human, for feathery ambiguity and rank facticity, for the air and iron, fire and spit of our daily mortal adventure there is nothing like fiction: it makes sociology look priggish, history problematical, the film media two-dimensional, and the National Enquirer as silly as last week’s cereal box.
Who Were the Highest Paid Writers of 2013
Who were the top earning authors of 2013? Some of the names on the list came as no surprise, while a few others just might shock you. 1. E. L. James – $95 Million Originally written as a “” tribute[Read More…]
Are You a Born Writer? Take the Quiz!
Some people become writers. Through a series of events and circumstances, they fall into the world of professional writing. Others are born writers – they have no choice. How about you? Are you a born writer? Take the quiz and [Read More…]
Bestselling Novels of All Time
While numbers vary according to source, one thing is for sure, the books below are, indeed, bestsellers. Over 100 million copies by Miguel De Cervantes by Charles Dickens by J. R. R. Tolkien by J. K. Rowling by Agatha Christie[Read More…]