2 Bks HOW WRITERS WRITE Lloyd + SIMPLE & DIRECT A Rhetoric For Writers by Barzun

Description: 2 Books on the Craft of Writing 1) Title: How Writers Write Author: Pamela Lloyd Publisher: Heinemann (1990) 2) Title: Simple & Direct A Rhetoric For Writers (revised edition) Author: Jacques Barzun Publisher: Colophon Books - Harper & Row Description:How Writers Write was published originally in Australia in 1987. This is the first U.S. printing by small publisher Heinemann in New Hampshire. About the book:I love words... I’m a storyteller. I like to take the reader and, with my stories, raise questions — shake them, so that hopefully, when they’ve finished reading the book, they might look around them a bit more closely and see that the world is so much more rich and strange than they ever imagined.’ Lee Harding How do writers write? Where do they get their inspiration? What motivates them? .The work of the twenty-three writers whose conversations are recorded in this book represents a wide range of literature — from picture books to adventure stories, fantasy to humur, historical fiction to poetry. The authors talk openly about where their ideas come from, and why they write. The diversity of their methods, revealing that there is no one writing process, will encourage every young writer.The authors included in this book are: Lloyd Alexander, Allan Baillie, Beverly Cleary, Robert Cormier, Max Dann, Michael Dugan, Michael Foreman, Simon French, Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, StevenKellogg, Robin Klein, Robert Leeson, Madeleine L’Engle, Arnold Lobel, Eve Merriam, Jack Prelutsky, Thomas Rockwell, Seymour Simon, Rosemary Sutcliff, Sue Townsend, Cynthia Voight and Jane Yolen. Simple & Direct is a modern classic for writers. An excellent guide on how to be a better writer. About the book In Simple & Direct, Jacques Barzun, the noted author and educator, distills from a lifetime of writing and teaching his thoughts about the basic choices every writer makes in his craft. In chapters covering diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision, Barzun describes and prescribes the techniques io correct the most ponderous style. Exercises for self-testing, model passages from writers, both literary and unorthodox, and hundreds of often amusing examples of usage gone wrong demonstrate the process of making intelligent choices and guide us toward developing a strong and distinctive prose. Addressed as much to seasoned writers as to students, Simple & Direct is, as Clifton Fadiman has said, “first-rate, funny, alert to every manifestation of our linguistic barbarism. But, more important, it is wise and helpful.” “Theory and instruction will go only so far. For the rest of the journey the student of the craft of writing needs the company of others who know the way. Jacques Barzun in his instruction and by the example of his own prose is an excellent choice of traveling companion.” —Doris Grumbach, Washington Post “Wise, provocative, strict, funny, it coaxes the reader up the road to a critical view of his own writing efforts. ... To anyone, whether student, professional writer, or average citizen who wishes to put down words on paper with clarity, precision and style... this book is a godsend.” —Mary Bingham, Louisville Courier-Journal “History teacher, writer, critic, Barzun strikes at pedantry, malapropisms, imprecision, misdirection —all the ways language can go wrong on the page—and emerges the victor.” —Booklist “For readers who want to be writers, Simple & Direct is a firm but friendly guide. Those who have enjoyed leaning on The Elements of Style will be even more stirred by Barzun’s fuller exploration of the use of words.... Often ironic, as stalwart against jargon as Quiller-Couch, and as funny as TV’s Edwin Newman in Strictly Speaking ... he exposes pretension and points the way to simple and direct expression.” —Library Journal Condition & Details:1) How Writers WriteBook is very good and tightly bound with light wear. On front free endpaper is price written in ink and words no discount as seen in photo. wraps (paperback) 149 pages approx 5 1/2" x 8"1990 - after first printing of 1987 in Australia by Thomas Nelson AustraliaHeinemann Educational Books - New Hampshire 2) Simple & DirectBook is very good with age wear. Small unobtrusive rubber stamp in ink on bottom fore-edge of book not affecting anything. 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