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A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read—and writeLong before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—Prose discovers why these writers endure. She takes pleasure in the signature elements of such outsatanding writers as Philip Roth, Isaac Babel, John Le Carré, James Joyce, and Katherine Mansfield. Throughout, she cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The trick to writing, Prose writes, is reading—carefully, deliberately and slowly. While this might seem like a no-brainer, Prose ( Blue Angel ; A Changed Man ) masterfully meditates on how quality reading informs great writing, which will wa

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Author

Francine Prose

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060777043

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (6,880 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13