Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1914502086
ISBN-13
9781914502088
Edition
Main
Publisher
Sort of Books
Imprint
Sort of Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 9th, 2023
Print length
112 Pages
Weight
98 grams
Dimensions
17.70 x 11.20 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Reportage & collected journalism
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Failure is the body of a writer's life. Success is only ever an attire.
''Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences'' If you want to be a writer, then you''d better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That''s the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth of rejection, forms the essence of a writer''s life. It''s what it takes, so no whining. Even the greatest of writers grapple with failure. Marche''s provocative, often very funny vignettes range through literary history from Samuel Johnson (''broke as f*ck'') to Jane Austen''s lacklustre publishing deals, to Dostoevsky facing mock-execution. The trick is to endure. As James Baldwin famously exhorts us: ''Write. Find a way to keep alive and write.''For new and seasoned writers, Marche''s words are salutary and, in a paradoxical way, consoling.All writers are up against it. Success is just an attire.
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