If You Want to Write - Hardcover

Ueland, Brenda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0912373008 ISBN 13: 9780912373003

Publisher: Schubert Club, 1983

Synopsis

Carl Sandburg called this book about art, independence, and spirit, "the best book ever written about how to write." Over 50 years since its publication, If You Want to Write continues to motivate aspiring writers.

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Review

"It's a perfect book for both beginning and advanced writing students. It's wonderfully inspirational and can be coupled with just about any teaching technique."--Erin Cressida Wilson, Duke University
"The finest book written on the art and spirit of writing."--Shann Ferch, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
"I have consistently used "If You Want to Write" for eight years now in English 241, and the students have loved it every semester."--Mel Livatino, Truman College (Chicago, IL)
""If You Want to Write" does a superb job of reassuring student writers whose schooling has often robbed them of any confidence in their own voices. Nothing else I know does a better job of explaining to first-year college students the necessity of passion in the writer."--Shelby Grantham, Dartmouth College
"I was with ÝUeland¨ right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'"--Andrei Codrescu, poet, author, and National Public Radio commentator
"I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her."--"Women's Review of Books"
"I was with ÝUeland¨ right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'" --Andrei Codrescu, NPR
"I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her." --"The Women's Review of Books"

" I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, ' Amen.' " -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR
" I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her." -- "The Women's Review of Books"

" I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, ' Amen.' " -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR
" I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her." -- "The Women' s Review of Books"

"I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'" --Andrei Codrescu, NPR
"I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her." --"The Women's Review of Books"

I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, Amen.' "Andrei Codrescu, NPR"

I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her. "The Women's Review of Books""

-I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'- --Andrei Codrescu, NPR

-I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her.- --The Women's Review of Books

"I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'" --Andrei Codrescu, NPR

"I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her." --The Women's Review of Books

From the Back Cover

In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout If You Want to Write, her best-selling classic on the process of writing that has already inspired thousands to find their own creative center. Carl Sandburg called this book "The best book ever written about how to write". Yet Ueland reminds us that "Whenever I say 'writing' in this book, I also mean anything that you love and want to do or to make". Ueland's writing and her teaching are made compelling by her feisty spirit of independence and joy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schubert Club
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912373008
• ISBN 13: 9780912373003
• Binding: Hardcover