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scribnerbooks:
“ Novelist Don DeLillo is named the first recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction!
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scribnerbooks:

Novelist Don DeLillo is named the first recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction!

scribnerbooks:

7 tips from Hemingway on how to write fiction.

wwnorton:

“I wanted to give the reader something to argue about, something that would annoy her and be a cause for dissent and great, I hope, pleasure.”
—Anne Enright discussing her novel The Forgotten Waltz as she accepts the nomination as one of the three finalists for the recent Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She ended up winning the inaugural prize awarded on June 24th in Anaheim, California.

That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

Tim O’Brien (The Things They Carried)

Summer Fiction Sale here July 9 through 15! Everything from children’s and YA to comics to regular ole’ books. Get THE TRUTH.

(via housingworksbookstore)

vintageanchor:
“ “Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit...

vintageanchor:

“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”
—Joan Didion

Posts tagged fiction

“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.” —Joan Didion

“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”
—Joan Didion