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Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers
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Every Day a Word Surprises Me is perfect for readers, writers, and anyone inspired by the power of language and the creative process. It suits those who seek motivation, insight, and a deeper understanding of writing through the words of literary greats.
Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new book
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Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by writers through the ages and across the globe, Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers is the ideal keepsake for readers, writers, and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words.
This carefully curated book, packed with original research, is a go-to resource for thoughts on a variety of subjects, including originality, punctuation, reading, daily routines, rejection, money troubles, the creative process, love, truth, and more.
Every day a word surprises me is a quotation by British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. This collection is full of its own surprises and hard-earned advice, communicated with the eloquence and clarity that only the world's finest writers could summon.
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"The ideal keepsake for readers, writers and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words... Inspirational." — Artsbeat
"The perfect recipe to get the creative juices flowing... Contains hundreds of insightful quotes by famous writers and personalities, from Jane Austen to Julian Barnes, Leo Tolstoy to Patti Smith, Virginia Woolf to Henry David Thoreau... from motivational to purely relatable." — CentMagazine.co.uk
"Not just another book of trite quotes... offers both useful advice and insight... thanks to imaginative categorisation and sourcing of interviews, journals and letters, any writer will find something of use here... with proper sources and links, it becomes a gateway to deeper exploration of the art of writing."
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780714875811
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 16 March 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 678g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Twenty-eight curators, critics, art historians, and artists contributed their expertise to create this art-lover's ideal museum. They come from such institutions as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the British Museum, London; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; the University of California, Berkeley; La Trobe University, Melbourne; the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London; and The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
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