A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King
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Köp båda 2 för 307 krPart biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer . . . one of the great storytellers of our time * Guardian * Absolutely fascinating . . . basic instructions . . . sensible advice * Sunday Times * The childhood memoir is a triumphant display of wit, story-telling and guts. His advice to writers is hard-nosed, practical and level-headed in the classic journalistic Orwell-Hemingway tradition * Evening Standard * This is the written equivalent of Delia Smith's How To Cook. And, like British home cooking, the world of popular fiction will be better off for it * The Times * Stephen King is a genius . . . In this book he tells us what first made him a horror writer . . . I find King fascinating because he writes in the least florid way possible, yet his very direct approach to getting his awesome imagination onto a blank page works -- Jeremy Vine * We Love This Book * I am a life-long fan, and ON WRITING is one of the most important books I've read on the craft and the business -- Lisa Unger Part biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer . . . one of the great storytellers of our time * Guardian * Absolutely fascinating . . . basic instructions . . . sensible advice * <i>The Sunday Times</i> * The childhood memoir is a triumphant display of wit, story-telling and guts. His advice to writers is hard-nosed, practical and level-headed in the classic journalistic Orwell-Hemingway tradition * <i>Evening Standard</i> * This is the written equivalent of Delia Smith's How To Cook. And, like British home cooking, the world of popular fiction will be better off for it * <i>The Times</i> * Stephen King is a genius . . . In this book he tells us what first made him a horror writer . . . I find King fascinating because he writes in the least florid way possible, yet his very direct approach to getting his awesome imagination onto a blank page works. * Jeremy Vine in </i>We Love This Book</i> *
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers., including The Institute, Sleeping Beauties (co-written with Owen King), The Dark Tower series and You Like It Darker. Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.