Career Indie Author Quote Book Bibliography
Every quote in the “Career Indie Author Quote Book” was the product of years of reading and note-taking. Every quote was researched and sourced so that it was correctly attributed and accurate. Sometimes, this mean adding a longer excerpt to show the quote in its correct context.
Publishing the bibliography with the book would have added too many pages, so here it is. Note that as the years pass, “link rot” will set in and those pages won’t be accessible. Determined researchers are advised to visit the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive and hope that the page was archived there.
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Edward Abbey
Abbey, Edward. A Voice Crying in the Wilderness. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990. [Truth]
Rachel Abbott
Haysom, Sam, “These self-published authors are actually making a living. Here’s how.”, Mashable, https://mashable.com/article/self-published-authors-making-a-living/, accessed Nov. 17, 2020. [Business]
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Abdel-Magied, Yassmin, “As Lionel Shriver Made Light of Identity, I Had No Choice But to Walk Out on Her,” The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/10/as-lionel-shriver-made-light-of-identity-i-had-no-choice-but-to-walk-out-on-her, accessed March 31, 2017. [Political Correctness, Lionel Shriver]
Diane Ackerman
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Discouragement; Encouragement]
Douglas Adams
Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. [Optimism]
“Adams, Douglas,” Encyclopedia.com, https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/adams-douglas, accessed Dec. 4, 2020. [Writing, Pleasures of]
Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt. New York: Pocket Books, 2002. [Deadlines]
Franklin Pierce Adams
Hendrickson, Robert. American Literary Anecdotes. New York: Facts on File, 1990. [Writing, Pleasures of]
Henry Adams
Samuels, Ernest. Henry Adams. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. [Write, Why]
Joseph Addison
Addison, Joseph, The Spectator, no. 291, 1712. [Critics]
Miller, Stephen, “Commerce and Art: The Disdain is Largely One-Sided.” The Weekly Standard, http://www.weeklystandard.com/commerce-and-art/article/736842, accessed Sept. 21, 2017. [Commerce]
Renata Adler
Dean, Michelle. Sharp. New York: Grove Press, 2018. [Bestsellers; Reviews, Bad]
Singer, Lori, “Speedboat, Pitch Dark — Tonight,” Lori Singer, https://lorisinger-blog.tumblr.com/post/47193385138/speedboat-pitch-dark-tonight, accessed Nov. 20, 2019. [Write, What to]
Howard Aiken
Slater, Slater. Portraits in Silicon. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989. [Originality]
Alain (E.A. Chartier)
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel and Related Writings. London: Edward Arnold, 1927. [Facts]
Louisa May Alcott
Saxton, Martha. Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1977. [Fans]
Brian Aldiss
Aldiss, Brian. The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman. New York: Warner Books, 1999. [Write, Why]
Winokur, Jon. Writers on Writing. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1990. [Fantasy]
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, “Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapong Papers, 1903. [Fame]
John W. Aldridge
Aldridge, John W. Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly-Line Fiction. New York: Scribner, 1992. [MFA Programs]
Lloyd Alexander
“Lloyd Alexander,” Scholastic, https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/lloyd-alexander/, accessed Jan. 30, 2019. [Fantasy]
Nelson Algren
Algren, Nelson. The Neon Wilderness. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1986. [Experience]
Algren, Nelson. Nelson Algren: A Collection of Critical Essay. Robert Ward, ed. Madison, Wisc.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. [Motivation]
Anderson, Alston and Terry Southern, “Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction No. 11,” The Paris Review, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4987/the-art-of-fiction-no-11-nelson-algren, accessed March 28, 2016. [American Literature; Conferences, Writers; Critics; Plot; Style; Write, How I; Write, Why]
Woody Allen
Lerner, Betsy. The Forest for the Trees. New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. [Write, Why]
Isabel Allende
Keenan, Catherine, “On to Zorro, With Love,” Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/20/1077072822854.html, accessed March 19, 2009. [Memoir and Autobiography]
Steve Almond
Almond, Steve, “The Bloom Is Off the Mark,” Moby Lives, http://www.mobylives.com/Almond_Bloom.html, accessed Dec. 14, 2017. [Art and Artists; Literature; Reading]
Chris Altacruise
Altacruise, Chris (ps.), “Creative Writing Workshops Produce the Stepford Writers,” Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1991. [MFA Programs; Political Correctness]
Ken Aluetta
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Writing Advice]
Eric Ambler
Lewis, Peter. Eric Ambler. New York: Continuum, 1990. [Thrillers]
Jonathan Ames
Sternbergh, Adam, “The Coy Exhibitionist,” New York, http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/58865/, accessed Sept. 28, 2009. [Secrets]
Kingsley Amis
Amis, Kingsley. Memoirs. New York: Random House, 2012. [Book Awards; Self-Revelation]
Brandreth, Gyles, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. [Write, Why]
Dirda, Michael, “Readings,” The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/11/20/readings/74774cfb-f83a-4cf3-9552-d520cb13542e/, accessed March 6, 2017. [Writer, What Is a]
Hitchens, Christopher, “The Man of Feeling,” The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/05/the-man-of-feeling/302486/, accessed March 19, 2009. [Characters]
Martin Amis
Amis, Martin, “The Art of Fiction CLI,” Paris Review, Spring 1998. [Discouragement]
Amis, Martin. Inside Story. New York: Knopf, 2020. [Write, What To]
Amis, Martin, “The Shock of the New,” The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/review/a-clockwork-orange-at-50.html, accessed Aug. 31, 2012. [Novel, Starting A]
Haffenden, John. Novelists in Interview. New York: Routledge, 2019. [Style]
Lerner, Betsy. The Forest for the Trees. New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. [Experience]
Jones, Lewis, “The Living V-Sign,” The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4721260/The-living-V-sign.html, accessed March 19, 2009 [Interviews]
Sinéad O’Shea, “Martin Amis Gets Matter of Face,” Publishers Weekly, https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/84153-martin-amis-gets-matter-of-fact.html, accessed Aug. 26, 2020. [Readers]
Stewart, Lucretia, “Can They Really Do Without Each Other?” The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3582550/Can-they-really-do-without-each-other.html, accessed March 19, 2009. [Reading]
Alfred Andersch
Andersch, Alfred. Winterspelt. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Doubleday, 1978. [Story]
Maya Angelou
Wolf, Linda, “An Interview with Maya Angelou,” The Teen Talking Circle Project, http://teentalkingcircles.org/8_interviews/mayaAngelou.htm, accessed March 6, 2017. [Forgiveness]
Anonymous
Anonymous, “Finis!,” Twelve Poets: A Miscellany of New Verse. London: Selwyn and Blount, 1919. [Afterword]
Anonymous Reader
Robb, Graham, “Balzac’s Business,” The Times Literary Supplement,https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/balzac-business/, accessed March 15, 2018. [Fans]
Jean Anouilh
Anouilh, Jean. Becket: Or the Honor of God. New York: New American Library, 1960. [Talent]
Thomas Aquinas
Miller, Stephen, “Commerce and Art: The Disdain is Largely One-Sided.” The Weekly Standard, http://www.weeklystandard.com/commerce-and-art/article/736842, accessed Sept. 21, 2017. [Commerce]
Hannah Arendt
Arendt, Hannah, “Isak Dinesen: 1885-1963,” Men in Dark Times, New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1968. [Meaning]
Brody, Richard, “Hannah Arendt’s Failures of Imagination, The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/12/hannah-arendts-failures-of-imagination.html, accessed Dec. 5, 2013. [Intellectuals]
Aristotle
Aristotle, The Poetics, chapter 25 [Art and Artists]
Matthew Arnold
Arnold, Matthew. Essays in Criticism. London: Macmillan & Co., 1863 [Criticism]
Mahler, Jonathan, “James Patterson Inc.,” The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.html, accessed Jan. 25, 2018. [Fiction, Popular]
Isaac Asimov
Asimov, Isaac. Conversations with Isaac Asimov. Carl Freedman, ed. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. [Motivation; Science Fiction]
Asimov, Isaac, “Essay 400 – A Way of Thinking,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1994. [Writing, Pleasures of]
Asimov, Isaac. It’s Been a Good Life. Janet Jeppson Asimov, ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. [Reading; Revision; Self-Confidence; Structure]
Conrad, Barnaby. The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writers Digest Press, 1990. [Editing Advice]
Darrach, Brad, “It’s An Asimovalanche! The One-man Book-a-Month Club Has Just Published His 179th,” People, https://people.com/archive/its-an-asimovalanche-the-one-man-book-a-month-club-has-just-published-his-179th-vol-6-no-21/, accessed April 16, 2020. [Work Habits]
Olander, Joseph D. and Martin Greenberg. Isaac Asimov. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1977. [Write, How I]
Scithers, George H., Darrell Schweitzer and John M. Ford, eds. On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back. Berkeley Heights, N.J., and Philadelphia: Wildside Press and Owlswick Press, 1999. [Emotions]
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Worldbuilding]
Diana Athill
“Best Literary Sex Scenes: Writers’ Favourites,” The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jul/06/best-literary-sex-scenes-writers-favourites, accessed March 30, 2017. [Sex]
James Atlas
Atlas, James, “The Fall of Fun,” The New Yorker, Nov. 18, 1996. [Art and Artists]
Kenneth Atuchity
Atuchity, Kenneth. A Writer’s Time: Making the Time to Write. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. [Encouragement]
Margaret Atwood
Atwood, Margaret. Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood. Earl G. Ingersoll, ed. Ontario: Ontario Review Press, 2006. [Art and Artists]
Bernardo Atxaga
Atxaga, Bernardo. Obabakoak. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. [Plagiarism; Writing Advice, Humorous]
W.H. Auden
Auden, W.H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1962. [Legacy; Originality; Poetry]
Auden, W.H., “The Guilty Vicarage,” Harper’s, https://harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guilty-vicarage/, accessed Feb. 17, 2019. [Mysteries]
Auden, W.H. Lectures on Shakespeare. Arthur Kirsch, ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. [Comedy/Tragedy]
Auden, W.H., “Squares and Oblongs,” Poets at Work, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1948. [Audience]
Carpenter, Humphrey. W.H. Auden: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. [Drugs]
Davenport-Hines, Richard. Auden. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. [Ambition; Passion]
Ruitenbeek, Hendrik Marinus. The Creative Imagination: Psychoanalysis and the Genius of Inspiration. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1965. [Poets]
Spender, Stephen, ed. W.H. Auden: A Tribute. New York: Macmillan, 1975. [Write, When To]
Jane Austen
Austen, Jane. The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, vol. 12. London: F.S. Holby, 1906. [Writer’s Block]
BBB
Isaak Babel
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1976. [Punctuation; Simile]
Bacchylides
Ruthven, Kenneth Knowles. Critical Assumptions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. [Originality]
Richard Bach
Bach, Richard. A Gift of Wings. New York: Dell, 1989. [Professionalism]
Brooks Baekeland
Aronson, Steven M.L. and Natalie Robins. Savage Grace. New York: Touchstone, 2007. [Novelists]
Paul Bailey
“Tears, Tiffs and Triumphs,” The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/06/bookerprize.40years, accessed Oct. 16, 2013. [Booker Award]
Nicholson Baker
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Writer’s Block]
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac, Honoré de. Lost Illusions. 1837. [Publicity]
Nicholson Baker
Currey, Mason. Daily Rituals and Routines: How Artists Work. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. [Write, When to]
Russell Baker
Madigan, Carol, ed. Life’s Big Instruction Book. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009. [Punctuation]
James Baldwin
Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. New York: Beacon Press, 1955. [Talent]
Farber, Jules B. James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence. Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 2016. [Write, Why]
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Sentences]
Toni Cade Bambara
Sternburg, Janet, ed. The Writer on Her Work. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. [Words]
Maurice Baring
Baring, Maurice. Russian Essays and Stories. London: Methuen & Co., 1907. [Books]
Clive Barker
Barker, Clive. Books of Blood. New York: Berkley Books, 1989. [Books]
Stroby, W.C., “Clive Barker: Trust Your Vision,” Writer’s Digest, March 1991. [Characters; Discouragement; Experience; Imagination; Short Stories; Writer, What Is A; Writing Advice; Writing, Pleasures of]
Dave Barry
Barry, Dave. Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits. New York: Random House, 2010. [Book Signings and Tours]
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Revision]
John Barth
Enck, John J. “John Barth: An Interview,” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. 6, no. 1 (Winter-Spring 1965). [Influences; Outline; Reading; Reality; Write, Why]
Morrell, David. John Barth: An Introduction. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976. [Novel, Starting a]
Tatham, Campbell. The Novels of John Barth: An Introduction. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin, 1968. [Talking About Writing]
Donald Barthelme
Saunders, George, “George Saunders: What Writers Really Do When They Write,” The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write, accessed Jan. 22, 2018. [Writer, What is a]
Roland Barthes
Barthes, Roland. A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. [Language]
Barthes, Roland, and Richard Howard. The Pleasure of the Text. New York: Macmillan, 1975. [Writer, What Is a Good]
Jacques Barzun
Barzun, Jacques. Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers. New York: Harper Perennial, 2001. [Words]
Arlo Bates
Fagin, N. Bryllion. Short Story-Writing: An Art or a Trade? New York: Thomas Seltzer, Inc., 1923. [Commercial Fiction]
Ann Beattie
Beattie, Ann. Conversations with Ann Beattie. Dawn Trouard, ed. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. [Write, When To]
Charles Beaumont
Ranker, Roger, “Remembering Charles Beaumont,” http://www.thetzsite.com/pages/magazine/remembering.html, accessed Feb. 19, 2009. [Fantasy; Fear]
Alison Bechdel
Mari, Naomi, “The Rumpus Interview with Alison Bechdel,” The Rumpus, http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-alison-bechdel/, accessed March 28, 2017. [Write, What We]
Samuel Beckett
Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett: A Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. [Inspiration]
Beckett, Samuel. Samuel Beckett: Novels. New York: Grove Press, 2006. [Write, Why]
Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. [Morality]
Monroe, William Frank. Power to Hurt: The Virtues of Alienation. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [Life and Living]
Henry Ward Beecher
Beecher, Henry Ward. Star Papers. New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. [Bookstores]
Drysdale, William, ed. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887. {Humor]
Max Beerbohm
Beerbohm, Max, “From Max Beerbohm,” The Yellow Book, vol. 2 (1894-7), London: E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894. [Critics]
Brendan Behan
Behan, Dominic. My Brother Brendan. London: Four Square, 1966. [Publicity]
Hilaire Belloc
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Criticism]
Saul Bellow
Bear, John. The #1 New York Times Bestseller. New York: Ten Speed Press, 1992. [Revision]
Bellow, Saul. There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction. New York: Penguin Books, 2015. [Novel; Novelists]
Bellow, Saul. Saul Bellow: Letters. New York: Penguin, 2010. [Sentences; Writing, Stresses From]
Bellow, Saul, “Saul Bellow — Nobel Lecture,” NobelPrize.Org, https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html, accessed March 26, 2018. [Novel, What Is a]
Buckley, William, “With Bellow in Chicago,” The New York Times Book Review, www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/specials/bellow-chicago80.html, accessed March 26, 2018. [Writer, What Is a Good]
Gussow, Mel, “For Saul Bellow, Seeing the Earth with Fresh Eyes,” The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/specials/bellow-gussow97.html, accessed March 26, 2018. [Criticism; Nobel Prize; Roman a Clef; Writing, Pleasures of]
Gussow, Mel and Charles McGrath, “Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life Into American Novel, Dies at 89,” The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/books/saul-bellow-who-breathed-life-into-american-novel-dies-at-89.html, accessed April 5, 2005. [Failure; Novelists; Writing Life]
The New York Times Biographical Service, Vol. 28. New York: New York Times and Arno Press, 1997. [Criticism]
Van Horne, Harriet, “Dailer’s Choice,” New York, March 28, 1977, via https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow, accessed Nov. 30, 2017. [Sex]
Robert Benchley
Benchley, Robert. Chips Off the Old Benchley. New York: Aeonian Press, 1976. [Plagiarism]
Benchley, Robert. My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew. New York: Harper Brothers, 1936. [Quotations]
Brian Michael Bendis
Kleon, Austin. Show Your Work. New York: Workman Publishing, 2014. [Ego]
Arnold Bennett
Wodehouse, P.G. and Guy Bolton. Bring on the Girls. London: J. Jenkins, 1954. [Notes, Taking]
A.C. Benson
Benson, A.C. From a College Window, 1906. [Memoir and Autobiography]
Stan and Jan Berenstain
Berenstain, Stan and Jan. Salon. [Critics]
Anne Bernays
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Surprise]
Thomas Berger
Streitfeld, David, “Book Report,” The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1990/09/16/book-report/d34a3136-26d4-4619-998c-09a51d56ace4/, accessed July 29, 2020. [Writing, Pleasures From]
Johann Adam Bergk
Friedman, Jane. The Business of Being a Writer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. [Reading]
Woodmansee, Martha. The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. [Novels, Criticism of]
Thomas Bernhard
Bernhard, Thomas. On the Mountain: Rescue Attempt, Nonsense. Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1991. [Book Awards]
John Berryman
Stitt, Peter A., “John Berryman, The Art of Poetry No. 16,” The Paris Review (Winter 1972), https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4052/john-berryman-the-art-of-poetry-no-16-john-berryman, accessed Feb. 3, 2020. [Criticism; Self-Image]
Alfred Bester
King, Stephen. On Writing. New York: Scribner, 2000. [Write, What To]
Bhagavad Gita
Krishnan, “Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 47,” Learning Daily, http://pkrishnan.net/action-alone-is-in-your-control/, accessed Nov. 29, 2018. [Action]
Ambrose Bierce
Bierce, Ambrose. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. VII: The Devil’s Dictionary. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1911. [Novels]
Bierce, Ambrose. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. X: The Opinionator. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1911. [Fiction]
Arthur Binstead
Binstead, Arthur. Pitcher’s Proverbs. London: Everett & Co., 1909. [Letters]
Brad Bird
Rao, Hayagreeva, Robert Sutton, and Allen P. Webb, “Innovation Lessons from Pixar: An Interview with Oscar-winning Director Brad Bird,” McKinsey & Company, http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/innovation-lessons-from-pixar-an-interview-with-oscar-winning-director-brad-bird, accessed March 9, 2017. [Audience]
Augustine Birrell
Birrell, Augustine. Collected Essays, vol. 1. London: E. Stock, 1902. [Books]
Buzz Bissinger
TCU 360, “TCU professor’s book review instigates Buzz Bissinger’s Twitter rant,” Storify, https://storify.com/tcu360/buzz-bissinger-disses-dallas-tcu-professor-and-dal, accessed Dec. 8, 2017. [Reviews, Bad]
Black Anti-Defamation Association
Campbell, James, “Frank’s New Valet,” Times Literary Supplement, http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/franks-new-valet/, accessed March 25, 2017. [Racism: The Autobiography of Nat Turner]
Richard Blake
Jackson, Tom, “Historical novelist Richard Blake on writing fiction readers will like,” Sandusky Register, https://web.archive.org/web/20150215101745/http://www.sanduskyregister.com/opinion/jackson-street-book-club/7267061, accessed Oct. 26, 2019. [Fiction, Function of; Historical Novels; History]
William Blake
Watson, George. Coleridge the Poet. New York: Routledge, 2016. [Plagiarism]
Lawrence Block
Block, Lawrence. The Liar’s Bible. Lawrence Block, 2011. [Point of View; Polemics; Punctuation; Sanity; Write, Learning To; Writer, What Is a Good; Writing, Stresses from]
Block, Lawrence. Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 1979. [Transitions]
Jackson, Tom, “Crime writer Lawrence Block on making a burglar a hero ,” Sandusky Register, https://web.archive.org/web/20150215022939/http://www.sanduskyregister.com/opinion/jackson-street-book-club/7635021, accessed Oct. 26, 2019. [Success at Writing]
McKenna, Bridget, “Writing is a Holistic Pursuit,” The Passive Voice, http://www.thepassivevoice.com/01/2013/writing-is-a-holistic-pursuit/, accessed Jan. 30, 2013. [Writing]
Vee, Paul, “Lawrence Block,” Novelist, http://www.motelsign.com/workstories/novelist.html, accessed Feb. 17, 2011. [Bestsellers; Research; Write, How Much To; Writer, Image of A; Writing, Good]
Harold Bloom
Bloom, Harold, “Dumbing Down American Readers,” Boston Globe, http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/, accessed March 15, 2017. [Book Awards, Stephen King]
Louise Bogan
Bogan, Louise, and Ruth Limmer. Journey Around My Room: The Autobiography of Louise Bogan. New York: Penguin Books, 1981. [Poetry]
Daniel J. Boorstin
McFadden, Robert D., “Daniel Boorstin, Pulitzer-Winning Author, Dies at 89,” The New York Times, Feb. 28, 2004. [Reading; Write, Why]
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. New York: Vintage Books, 1992. [Bestsellers]
Jorge Luis Borges
Borges, Jorge Luis. Dreamtigers. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2014. [Library]
Borges, Jorge Luis. Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations. Richard Burgin, ed. Jackson, Miss: University of Mississippi, 1998. [Characters]
Alain de Botton
Botton, Alain de. Essays in Love. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. [Quotations]
Ben Bova
Winokur, Jon. Advice to Writers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. [Science Fiction]
Catherine Drinker Bowen
McKenzie, Belle and Helen F. Olson, eds. “Discipline and Reward: A Writer’s Life,” Experiences in Writing, New York: Macmillan, 1962. [Life and Living; Write, Where To]
Murray, Donald Morison. Shoptalk: Learning to Write with Writers. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1990. [Motivation]
Elizabeth Bowen
Boulter, Amanda. Writing Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches. New York: Macmillan, 2007. [Dialogue]
Bowen, Elizabeth. Collected Impressions. New York: Knopf, 1950. [Editing Advice]
Brian Boyd
Boyd, Brian. On the Origin of Stories. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. [Characters; Emotions]
T. Coraghessian Boyle
Lerner, Betsy. The Forest for the Trees. New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. [Self-Confidence]
Peg Bracken
Writer’s Digest Editors. The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 2017. [Ideas]
Ray Bradbury
The Associated Press, Dec. 13, 1995. [Write, What To]
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. [Legacy]
Books, Inq., http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2012/08/thought-for-day_22.html. [Thinking]
Conrad, Barnaby. The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 1990. [Plot]
Fryxell, David A. Write Faster, Write Better. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 2004. [Write, Why]
Marchi, Jason J., “An Interview with Master Storyteller Ray Bradbury,” Hollywood Scriptwriter (January 1999). [Writer, What Is a]
Temple, Emily, “Famous Authors’ Funniest Responses to Their Books Being Banned,” Flavorwire, http://flavorwire.com/333790/famous-authors-funniest-responses-to-their-books-being-banned, accessed Oct. 4, 2012. [Censorship]
Tillotson, Ted, “Playing the Writing Game,” Writer’s Digest. [Inspiration; Writer’s Block]
Weller, Sam, “Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction, No. 203,” The Paris Review, https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury, accessed Nov. 18, 2020. [Ideas]
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Ecclesiastes
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ian Fleming
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Jane Murray Flutter
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