|
Achebe, Chinua |
Things Fall Apart |
|
Anderson, Sherwood |
Winesburg Ohio |
|
Atwood, Margaret |
Edible Woman, Life Before Man, Oryx
and Crake |
|
Austin, Jane |
Pride and Prejudice, Emma |
|
Babel, Isaac |
Complete Stories |
|
Baldwin, James |
Go Tell it on the Mountain |
|
Balzac, Honoré |
Pere Goriot, Droll Tales |
|
Barnes, Djuna |
Nightwood |
|
Barth, John |
The End of the Road, Lost in the
Funhouse (stories) |
|
Barthelme, Donald |
60 Stories, The Dead Father, |
|
Barthelme, Frederick |
Moon Deluxe |
|
Beckett, Samuel |
Watt, Malloy |
|
Bender, Aimee |
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt |
|
Bellow, Saul |
Humboldt’s Gift, Seize the Day |
|
Borges, Jorge Luis |
Selected Fictions, Selected
Nonfictions |
|
Borowski, Tadeusz |
This Way for the Gas, Ladies &
Gentlemen |
|
Brandt, Dorothea |
Becoming a Writer |
|
Brontë, Emily |
Wuthering Heights |
|
Bulgakov |
The Heart of a Dog |
|
Burroughs, William |
Naked Lunch |
|
Calvino, Italo |
Invisible Cities, If on a Winter’s
Night a Traveler, A Baron in the Trees, Tzero, Cosmicomics. |
|
Camus, Albert |
The Stranger, The Plague |
|
Capote, Truman |
The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood |
|
Carver, Raymond |
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please,
Cathedral |
|
Cather, Willa |
The Professor’s House, My Antonia |
|
Céline, Louis Ferdinand |
Death on the Installment Plan,
Journey to the End of Night |
|
Cervantes, Miguel |
Don Quixote |
|
Chekov, Anton |
Complete Stories |
|
Chopin, Kate |
The Awakening |
|
Coetzee, J.M. |
The Barbarians, Disgrace |
|
Colette |
Cheri, Ripening Seed |
|
Conrad, Joseph |
Lord Jim, Victory, Heart of Darkness |
|
Coover, Robert |
Pricksongs & Descant
(stories), Spanking the Maid |
|
Cortazar, Julio |
Blow Up and Other Stories |
|
Crace, Jim |
Being Dead, The Gift of Stones |
|
Crane, Stephen |
Red Badge of Courage and stories |
|
De Beauvoir, Simone |
The Mandarins |
|
De Maupassant, Guy |
stories |
|
Defoe, Daniel |
Moll Flanders |
|
DeLillo, Don |
White Noise, Mao 11 |
|
Dickens, Charles |
Great Expectations, Bleak House |
|
Dillard, Annie |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Writing
Life |
|
Dos Passos, John |
U. S. A. |
|
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime &
Punishment |
|
Dreiser, Theodore |
Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy |
|
Duras, Marguerite |
Moderato Contabile, The Lover |
|
Dudrell, Lawrence |
The Alexandria Quartet |
|
Eliot, George |
Middlemarch |
|
Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
|
Faulkner, William |
The Sound and the Fury, Light in
August, As I Lay Dying |
|
Fielding, Henry |
Tom Jones |
|
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
|
Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
|
Ford, Ford Madox |
The Good Soldier |
|
Forster, E.M |
Howards End, Passage to India |
|
Fuentes, Carlos |
A Change of Ski, Terra Nostra |
|
García Márquez, Gabriel |
A Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in
the Time of Cholera |
|
Gardner, John |
Grendel |
|
Genet, Jean |
Our Lady of the Flowers |
|
Gide, André |
The Counterfeiters, Lafcadio’s
Adventures |
|
Gogol |
The Nose |
|
Golding, William |
Lord of the Flies |
|
Gordimer, Nadine |
Burger’s Daughter, July’s Children |
|
Grass, Günter |
The Tin Drum |
|
Greene, Graham |
Brighton Rock |
|
Hamsun, Knut |
Growth of the Soil, Hunger,
Mysteries, Pan |
|
Handke, Peter |
The Left-Handed Woman |
|
Hardy, Thomas |
Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of
Casterbridge |
|
Hawkes, John |
The Lime Twig, Death, Sleep &
the Traveler, Blood Oranges |
|
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The Scarlet Letter and stories |
|
Heller, Joseph |
Catch 22 |
|
Hemingway, Ernest |
In Our Time, The Nick Adams Stories,
The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, In Our Time (stories) |
|
Hesse, Herman |
Steppenwolf |
|
Hosseini, Khaled |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
|
Hoffman, Yoel |
The Shunra and the Schmetterling,
The Christ of Fish |
|
Hurston, Zora N. |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
|
Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
|
James, Henry |
The Portrait of a Lady, The
Ambassadors |
|
Johnson, Charles |
Middle Passage |
|
Johnson, Denis |
Jesus’ Son |
|
Joyce, James |
Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man, Ulysses |
|
Kafka, Franz |
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka,
The Trial |
|
Keret, Etgar |
The Nimrod Flipout |
|
Kerouac, Jack |
On the Road, Dharma Bums |
|
Kosinski, Jerzy |
The Painted Bird |
|
Kundera, Milan |
The Art of the Novel, The Book of
Laughter and Forgetting, The Incredible Lightness of Being |
|
Lawrence, D.H. |
Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and
stories |
|
Leduc, Violet |
La Batarde, The Taxi |
|
Lessing, Doris |
The Golden Notebook, Martha Quest |
|
Lewis, Sinclair |
Main Street, Babbitt |
|
Llosa, Vargas |
Who Killed Palomino Molina? |
|
Lodge, David |
The Art of Fiction, The Practice of
Writing |
|
Lowry, Malcom |
Under the Volcano |
|
Mahfouz, Naguib |
Children of Gebelaawi, The Cairo
Trilogy, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma |
|
Mailer, Norman |
An American Dream |
|
Malamud, Bernard |
The Natural, The Assistant, stories |
|
Marcus, Ben |
Age of Wire and String |
|
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love
in the Time of Cholera |
|
Mann, Thomas |
The Magic Mountain, Stories of Three
Decades |
|
McCarthy, Cormac |
Blood Meridian, The Road |
|
McCullers, Carson |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
|
Melville, Herman |
Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener |
|
Miller, Henry |
Big Sur and the Oranges of
Hieronymous Bosch, Henry Miller on Writing, The Books in my Life, Tropic of
Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Air-conditioned Nightmare |
|
Miller, Walter |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
|
Morrison, Toni |
Beloved, Song of Solomon, The
Dancing Mind |
|
Munro, Alice |
Any collection of stories |
|
Murakami, Haruki |
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on
the Shore, After Dark |
|
Musil, Robert |
The Man without Qualities |
|
Nabokov, Vladimir |
Lolita, Despair |
|
Naipaul, V.S. |
A Bend in the River |
|
Nooteboom, Cees |
Rituals |
|
O’Brien, Edna |
The Country Girls Trilogy |
|
O’Connor, Flannery |
Wise Blood, Everything that Rises Must
Converge (stories) |
|
O’Connor, Frank |
stories |
|
Oates, Joyce Carol |
Telling Stories, The Wheel of Love
(stories) |
|
Olsen, Tillie |
Tell Me a Riddle (stories) |
|
Orwell, George |
1984, Burmese Days, Keep the
Aspidistra Flying |
|
Ozick, Cynthia |
The Puttermesser Papers |
|
Paley, Grace |
Any collection of stories |
|
Paley, Grace |
Stories: “The Little Disturbances of
Man,” “Later the Same Day” |
|
Poe, E.A. |
stories |
|
Porter, Katherine Anne |
stories |
|
Proust, Marcel |
Remembrance of Things |
|
Puig, Manuel |
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth |
|
Pynchon, Thomas |
V, Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s
Rainbow |
|
Rabelais |
Gargantua and Pantagruel |
|
Reed, Ishmael |
The Free-Lance Pallbearers,
Mumbo-Jumbo |
|
Rhys, Jean |
Good Morning, Midnight! |
|
Robbe-Grillet, Alain |
Jealousy, the Voyeur |
|
Roth, Phillip |
Portnoy’s Complaint, The Ghost
Writer |
|
Rushdi, Salmon |
The Moor’s Last Sig, Haroun and the
Sea of Stories |
|
Salinger, J.D. |
The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories |
|
Saramago |
Blindness |
|
Sarraute, Natalie |
Tropisms |
|
Sarte, Jean-Paul |
Nausea |
|
George Saunders |
Civilwarland, Passtoralia |
|
Schultz, Bruno |
The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium
Under the Sign of the Hourglass |
|
Shepard, Sam |
Great Dream of Heaven |
|
Singer, L.B. |
stories |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Momento Mori |
|
Stein, Gertrude |
Three Lives |
|
Steinbeck, John |
The Grapes of Wrath |
|
Stendhal |
The Red and the Black |
|
Sterne, Lawrence |
Tristram Shandy |
|
Svevo, Italo |
Confessions of Zorro |
|
Taher, Bahaa’ |
Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery |
|
Tolstoy |
What is Art, Anna Karenina, War and
Peace |
|
Turgenev, Ivan |
Fathers and Sons |
|
Twain, Mark |
Huckleberry Finn |
|
Updike, John |
Rabbit Run |
|
Voltaire |
Candide |
|
Vonnegut, Kurt |
Slaughterhouse Five |
|
Walseer, Robert |
Selected Stories |
|
Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One |
|
Welty, Eudora |
stories |
|
West, Nathanael |
Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the
Locust |
|
Wharton, Edith |
The Age of Innocence |
|
Wolfe, Thomas |
Look Homeward Angel |
|
Woolf, Virginia |
To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway |
|
Wright, Richard |
Native Son |
|
Zola, Emile |
The Human Beast, Nana |
More books for Fiction Writers
|
Brown, Reni |
Self-Editing for Fiction
Writers |
|
Cameron, Julia |
The Artist’s Way |
|
Calvino, Italo |
Six Memos for the Next
Millennium |
|
Dillard, Annie |
The Writing Life |
|
Gardner, John |
On Becoming a
Novelist, The Art of Fiction
|
|
Goldberg, Natalie |
Writing Down the
Bones
|
|
Koch, Steven |
The Modern Library Writer's
Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction |
|
Kundera, Milan |
The Art of the Novel |
|
Lamott, Anne |
Bird by Bird |
|
Lukeman, Noah |
A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation, The First 5
Pages. |
|
Marcus, Ben / Editor |
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories |
|
Maso, Carole |
Break Every Rule |
|
Nin, Anais |
The Novel of the Future |
|
Prose, Francine |
Reading Like a Writer |
|
Queneau, Raymond |
Exercises in Style |
|
Roorbach, Bill |
Writing Life Stories |
|
Strunk, William |
The Elements of Syle |
|
Tharpe, Twyla |
The Creative Habit |
More Japanese Writers
Notable Quotes for tattoos and t-shirts.
"If you are
not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need have you
for tomorrow?" – Nachman of Bratslav
“A book should serve as the
axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka
“It must change, it must give
pleasure, and it must be abstract.”
Wallace Stevens
“Every
novel, like it or not, offers some answer to the question What is human
existence, and wherein does its poetry lie?” – Milan Kundera
“A writer is somebody for
whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” –Thomas Mann
“I believe
more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” – Truman Capote
“The first
draft of anything is shit.” – Ernest Hemingway
"I've
done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10
or 12 drafts." – Raymond Carver
“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing.
They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of
hearts, ‘To hell with you. ‘“- Saul
Bellow
"The
best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then
doing it over ... I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I
never did." – Toni Morrison
"No
iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put at the right
place." – Isaac Babel
"The
best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." – Linus Pauling
"The
way to get people to build a ship is not to teach them carpentry, assign them
tasks, and give them schedules to meet; but to inspire them to long for the
infinite immensity of the sea." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The
truth is more important than the facts." – Frank Lloyd Wright
"Not
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted.” – Albert Einstein
"I
shut my eyes in order to see." Paul Gaugin
“Whatever you can
do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in
it.” Goethe
“There are three
rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” - W.
Somerset Maugham
“You can't sit
around and wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack
London
You know you've achieved
perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have
nothing more to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery “And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.” -Erica Jong
"If I had more time, I
would write a shorter story." – Mark Twain
“Writing is very easy. You sit down at a typewriter and open a
vein.” – Red Smith
“If you can’t annoy somebody,
there is little point in writing.” – Kingsley Amis
“Writing
is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that
the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove,
you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove
somehow remain.” – Elie Wiesel
"Why do writers write?
Because it isn't there." – Thomas Berger
“Art teaches nothing, except
the significance of life.” – Henry Miller
"If you
write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've
failed. You fail only if you stop writing." Ray Bradbury
"Words should be an intense pleasure to a
writer just as leather should be to a shoemaker." - Evelyn Waugh
“Good writing is like a
windowpane.” – George Orwell
“Appealing workplaces are to
be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in
the dark.” – Annie Dillard
“We want competence, but
competence itself is deadly. What you want is vision to go with it, and you do
not get this from a writing class.” – Flannery O’Connor, MFA
“The sheer pleasure of
telling a story may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The adjective is the enemy
of the noun.” - Voltaire
"When I am
working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as
possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to
your work and warm as you write…. When you stop you are as empty, and at the
same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you
love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until
the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is
hard to get through." – Ernest Hemingway
"All the
fun is in how you say a thing.” Robert Frost
"Work every day. No matter
what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail." –
Ernest Hemingway
"This
(Tropic of Cancer) is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of
character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a
prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God,
Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty…what you will. I am going to sing for you, a
little off key perhaps, but I will sing." – Henry Miller
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