The Writing Life

The Writing Life

By
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
1989 • 132 pages

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432 books

The End Is Not On The Last Page

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innnmoanecklips
The Glass Castle
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Time Traveler's Wife
Dracula
The Lovely Bones

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17,840 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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670 books

Bucket List

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Carla
Do With Me What You Will
The Weather of the Heart: Selected Poems
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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74 books

Writing

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Carla
The Criminal Mind: A Writer's Guide to Forensic Psychology
The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World's Rarest Type

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434 books

Faction

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Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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1 book

Classics

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The Writing Life

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118 books

Writing

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The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing
Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
Dialogue

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99 books

Owned

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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Writing Life
Tam Lin
The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
Short Talks

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91 books

1 Day

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Renee
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
The Greatest Stories Never Told
Grief
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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170 books

As A Mini Skirt As A Long Nails

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innnmoanecklips
On the Technique of Acting
Lisa-loup et le conteur
Dora Bruder
The heart-keeper: A novel
Ariel
The Yellow Wallpaper
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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36 books

Creativity And/Or Writing

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innnmoanecklips
Journal of a Novel
Comedy Writer
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky
The Sense of an Ending
Free play
On Teaching and Writing Fiction
The Anthologist

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49 books

Writing Reference

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Clifford Garstang
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
The subversive copy editor
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice

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276 books

Home Library

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Holly
Lady Knight
Squire
First Test
Ten Poems to Set You Free

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117 books

Autobiography

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Stephen McClurg
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Night
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Beneath the Underdog

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59 books

Writing

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Stephen McClurg
Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
Anguished English
Why I Write
On writing well
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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114 books

Writing

DebNance
Deb Nance
S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Trial by Journal
This Is Not a Book
Write This Book: a do-it-yourself mystery
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

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28 books

Craft

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Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View
Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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213 books

Non Fiction

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Rich Dad Poor Dad
Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
The Boy Scout Handbook
PREACH MY GOSPEL, A GUIDE TO MISSIONARY SERVICE
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

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120 books

2022

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Legends of the Fall
The great leader
Buddhism for beginners
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Alice
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1: Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask

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249 books

Read In English

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Ivan
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Chernobyl Prayer
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Adulthood Is a Myth
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning

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40 books

Read In 2021

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The Writing Life
Nefertiti
The Heretic Queen
Mamasafari i ostale stvari
The King's Gambit

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303 books

Non Fiction

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Devotion: A Memoir
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Fear
The Art of Memoir
Hunger
The Solace of Open Spaces
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

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55 books

Favorites

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Excellent Women
A Buyer's Market
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
Middlemarch

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38 books

Borrowed

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Todd Warner
The Forever War
Anathem
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Eastern Standard Tribe
Howl and Other Poems
Anansi Boys
The Poisonwood Bible

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119 books

Coaching

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Jennifer
Think and Grow Rich
Book Yourself Solid
Positive Intelligence
Integration: The Power of Being Co-Active in Work and Life
Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead
The Art of Possibility
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