Shoptalk: Learning to Write with Writers

by Donald M. Murray

Both practicing and would-be writers are endlessly fascinated by what other writers have to say about the demands of their craft and their own methods of writing. In Shoptalk , Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Murray has collected quotations from over 450 classic and contemporary writers that reveal the myriad stages writers pass through to completion of a work. But this is more than a book of quotations; Murray has organized the writers' testimony into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867092580
• ISBN13: 9780867092585
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Postsecondary