'This is a splendid book, well-organized, pleasant to use.' Sunday Telegraph
* 'It will be relished by bookish readers and will serve as a wonderful catalyst for writers.' Spectator
* First edition in OPR paperback (019 280090 6) sold 14,200
* Part of the market-leading Oxford Paperback Reference series
* 4,000+ quotations arranged by subject on all aspects of literature
* 20% of quotations new to this edition
* New authors include Colin Dexter, Jonathan Franzen, J. K. Rowling, and Donna Tartt
* New themes include Collaboration and Epitaphs
* Now with biographical details of all authors quoted
* Full author and keyword indexes to aid the reader
DESCRIPTION:
This new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by subject, it includes topics ranging from Tools of the Trade and Writer's Block to Ghost Stories and Critics. Shakespeare, Shaw, and Johnson have their say, but authors also include Alice Munro on Illustration and Pushkin on Earning a Living, A. D. Hope on Fables and Fairytales, Rimbaud on Baudelaire and Harold Pinter on Omission. New themes in this edition include Graffiti and Epitaphs, and there are many more quotations by writers on other writers: Ben Okri on Cervantes, Walter de la Mare on Lewis Carroll, and Philip Roth on William Faulkner.
The long uphill struggle in playwriting is getting to the top of page one. - Tom Stoppard
I'd love to write a book a year, but I don't think I'd have any fans. - Donna Tartt
Lads don't write novels. They're down the pub. - Martin Amis on Ladlit
You reach an age when every sentence you write bumps into one you wrote thirty years ago. - John Updike
Reading . . . is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport. - Maureen Howard
There were no innocent blondes in crime fiction. - Ed McBain
Never make your publisher pay the postage is the first rule of literary life. - Julian Barnes
* 'It will be relished by bookish readers and will serve as a wonderful catalyst for writers.' Spectator
* First edition in OPR paperback (019 280090 6) sold 14,200
* Part of the market-leading Oxford Paperback Reference series
* 4,000+ quotations arranged by subject on all aspects of literature
* 20% of quotations new to this edition
* New authors include Colin Dexter, Jonathan Franzen, J. K. Rowling, and Donna Tartt
* New themes include Collaboration and Epitaphs
* Now with biographical details of all authors quoted
* Full author and keyword indexes to aid the reader
DESCRIPTION:
This new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by subject, it includes topics ranging from Tools of the Trade and Writer's Block to Ghost Stories and Critics. Shakespeare, Shaw, and Johnson have their say, but authors also include Alice Munro on Illustration and Pushkin on Earning a Living, A. D. Hope on Fables and Fairytales, Rimbaud on Baudelaire and Harold Pinter on Omission. New themes in this edition include Graffiti and Epitaphs, and there are many more quotations by writers on other writers: Ben Okri on Cervantes, Walter de la Mare on Lewis Carroll, and Philip Roth on William Faulkner.
The long uphill struggle in playwriting is getting to the top of page one. - Tom Stoppard
I'd love to write a book a year, but I don't think I'd have any fans. - Donna Tartt
Lads don't write novels. They're down the pub. - Martin Amis on Ladlit
You reach an age when every sentence you write bumps into one you wrote thirty years ago. - John Updike
Reading . . . is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport. - Maureen Howard
There were no innocent blondes in crime fiction. - Ed McBain
Never make your publisher pay the postage is the first rule of literary life. - Julian Barnes