Page Fright Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers

Name: Page Fright Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
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ISBN: 9780771017131

ISBN-10: 0771017138

ISBN-13: 9780771017131

Edition: 2010

Authors: Harry Bruce

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication date: 9/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.01" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction



ï¿½Speaking to the Eyesï¿½: Beginnings



The Feather Is Mightier Than the Sword



Inkwells, Steel Nibs, Billions of Ballpoints



The Properly Pointed, Perfectly Portable Pencil



The Long Reign of Longhand



ï¿½First, I Write by Hand...ï¿½



The Almighty Typewriter. Can You Hear the Rhythm?



Hail the Conquering Word Processor



Pins, Paste, Scissors, Recorders. The Right Paper, Please



Out of Their Mouths Popped Literature



Keep Out! Writer at Work



To Hide Out, or Greet Life



Panoramas, Bare Walls, Strange Habits



While Working on It, Shut Up About It. Or Don't



They Wrote Lying Down, Standing Up, Stark Naked



Horror Rolls in, ï¿½Like Some Poisonous Fogbankï¿½



Blocked!



ï¿½I'm a Drinker With a Writing Problemï¿½



The Wrong Stuff



Walking the Walk, and Other Steps to Creation



Burning Kisses, Animal Magnetism



The Daily and Nightly Grind



ï¿½And How I Get There Is God's Graceï¿½



ï¿½We Are Only Telephone Wiresï¿½



What's Worse Than Writing? Not Writing



From the Great French Hunter of ï¿½le Mot Justeï¿½: le Mot Dernier


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index