If You Want To Write: A Book About Art, Independence & Spirit - Softcover

"It's a perfect book for both beginning and advanced writing students. It's wonderfully inspirational and can be coupled with just about any teaching technique."-- Erin Cressida Wilson, Duke University "The finest book written on the art and spirit of writing."-- Shann Ferch, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) "I have consistently used "If You Want to Write" for eight years now in English 241, and the students have loved it every semester."-- Mel Livatino, Truman College (Chicago, IL) ""If You Want to Write" does a superb job of reassuring student writers whose schooling has often robbed them of any confidence in their own voices. Nothing else I know does a better job of explaining to first-year college students the necessity of passion in the writer."-- Shelby Grantham, Dartmouth College "I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'"-- Andrei Codrescu, poet, author, and National Public Radio commentator "I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her."-- "Women's Review of Books"

An inspirational tract aimed at all those who would write but are prevented from doing so by shyness, fear or humility... I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout |Amen.|| - Andrei Codrescu, NPR