Craft
Beyond the Narrative Arc, Jane Alison
Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits, Lydia Davis
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Alexander Chee
architectures of possibility: after innovative writing, Lance Olsen
Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
In the Palm of Your Hand, Steve Kowit
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
Theory
The Dialogic Imagination, Mikhail Bakhtin
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness, Barbara Johnson
An Introduction to Genre Theory, Daniel Chandler
Quotes
"One never paints what one sees or thinks one sees; one paints, under stress of a thousand vibrations, the shock received." - Nicolas de Staël
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity," - Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"I'm going to take the simplest approach to life of all. Simplest and best, best is the word. I've decided to excel in everything." - Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
"Writing is like screaming but quieter." - A girl named Jude in a workshop class I attended
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