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Odd Type Writers: From Joyce And Dickens To Wharton And Welty, The Obsessive Habits And Quirky Techniques Of Great Authors (2013)

by Celia Blue Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0399159940 (ISBN13: 9780399159947)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Perigee Trade

review 1: I admit that I'm a sucker for books about writers, from the shallowest collection of pithy sayings to the longest biographies vying for the Pulitzer Prize. This one falls closer to the former than the latter end of the spectrum, but it is fun as well as giving readers, especially other writers, things to ponder. Johnson gives a separate short chapter to twenty writers but discusses those and others in chapters on general topics such as nightlife and drinking. Some writers could only work with a certain ink or paper, others had to place their writing materials in a certain way. The pleasure to be derived from these vignettes is like peeking through a window at an old friend to see him or her coming to the door to greet you.
review 2: An entertaining collection o... moref essays about well-known authors. The book is about the authors various quirks and rituals that helped them to write. It was a fun book to read, and great as you could read one chapter (author) at a time. Honore De Balzac consumed up to 50 cups of coffee a day to help him write! Gertrude Stein obtained her first car, a model T Ford in 1917. She quickly discovered that the driver's seat of the car was an ideal spot to write! These are the type of short stories you will read in the Odd Type Writers! less

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