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This book can jump-start anyone's creativity. Highly recommended for all writing collections * Library Journal * The best book on writing that I have read ... cannot fail to help every writer, no matter at what stage he finds himself -- Barnaby Conrad, New York Times bestselling author of Matador Offers a banquet of savvy advice * Publishers Weekly * With Stein's assistance, you can grab your reader on page one and not let go until The End ... [Stein] offers usable solutions for any writing problem you might encounter ... he challenges you to write the sentence you want the world to remember you by -- Jane Steinberg

"'This book can jump-start anyone's creativity. Highly recommended for all writing collections' - Library Journal 'The best book on writing that I have read ... cannot fail to help every writer, no matter at what stage he finds himself' - Barnaby Conrad, New York Times bestselling author of Matador 'Offers a banquet of savvy advice' - Publishers Weekly 'With Stein's assistance, you can grab your reader on page one and not let go until ""The End""... [Stein] offers ""usable solutions"" for any writing problem you might encounter ... he challenges you to write the sentence you want the world to remember you by' - Jane Steinberg"

With Stein's assistance, you can grab your reader on page one and not let go until The End . Stein -- author of nine novels (including the best-selling The Magician) and editor to James Baldwin, W.H. Auden, and Lionel Trilling -- offers usable solutions for any writing problem you might encounter. He is authoritative, commanding, and neither cheerleader nor naysayer. Instead, he rails against mediocrity and demands that you expunge it from your work ... he challenges you to write the sentence you want the world to remember you by -- Jane Steinberg The best book on writing that I have read ... the tips, shortcuts, and plentiful examples of good writing versus bad cannot fail to help every writer, no matter at what stage he finds himself -- Barnaby Conrad, New York Times bestselling author of Matador Offers a banquet of savvy advice ... Stein aims not to help his readers wrestle with writerly anguish; rather, he gets on the page, citing examples from writers famous and fledgling, closely analyzing first sentences, creation of character, plotting, and dialogue * Publishers Weekly * This book can jump-start anyone's creativity. Highly recommended for all writing collections * Library Journal *

"This book can jump-start anyone's creativity. Highly recommended for all writing collections * Library Journal * The best book on writing that I have read ... cannot fail to help every writer, no matter at what stage he finds himself -- Barnaby Conrad, New York Times bestselling author of Matador Offers a banquet of savvy advice * Publishers Weekly * With Stein's assistance, you can grab your reader on page one and not let go until ""The End""... [Stein] offers ""usable solutions"" for any writing problem you might encounter ... he challenges you to write the sentence you want the world to remember you by -- Jane Steinberg"

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Sol Stein edited the work of such major writers as James Baldwin, Jack Higgins, David Frost, and Elia Kazan, and founded the publishing house Stein & Day. He taught creative writing at Columbia, Iowa, and the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of nine novels, including the million-copy bestseller The Magician. He died in 2019.

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