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The Electric Typewriter Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers 15 Great Articles and Essays about Writing The best essays on writing from around the net -- essays on the craft of writing by famous writers Essential Essays for Writers On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion A beautiful meditation on keeping notes that explores the heart of the writing process. Why I Write by Joan Didion Exploring the art of writing, and what it means to the author. Everything you Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes by Stephen King Short, sharp advice on everything from talent and self-criticism to having fun and entertaining your audience Write Till You Drop by Annie Dillard "Do you think I could be a writer?" "I don't know. . . . Do you like sentences?" The Nature of the Fun by David Foster Wallace "A book-in-progress is a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it'll get: the writer's complete attention." That Crafty Feeling by Zadie Smith "What I have to say about craft extends no further than my own experience, which is what it is - 12 years and three novels." Fail Better by Zadie Smith Literature's legacy of honourable failure Why I Write by George Orwell On egoism, a love of beauty, the quest for truth and the desire to change the world -- Orwell's 'four great motive for writing'. The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling A commencement address Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Neil Gaiman A meditation on inspiration Despite Tough Guys, Life Is Not the Only School for Real Novelists by Kurt Vonnegut A beautifully argued defence of the role of teaching in developing writers. A Place You All Know Well by Michael Chabon I've always felt that there's a kinship between writers and explorers. Write Like a Motherfucker by Cheryl Strayed Raw, emotional adivce on the role of humility and surrender in the often tortured world of the writer Thoughts on Writing by Elizabeth Gilbert On disicpline, hard work, rejection and why it's never too late to start Uncanny the Singing That Comes from Certain Husks by Joy Williams "Who cares if the writer is not whole? Of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well..."