Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers [Hardcover]

Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new book

Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by writers through the ages and across the globe,Every Day a Word Surprises Meis the ideal keepsake for readers, writers, and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words. This carefully curated book, packed with original research, is a go-to resource for thoughts on a variety of subjects, including originality, punctuation, reading, daily routines, rejection, money troubles, the creative process, love, truth, and more. 'Every day a word surprises me' is a quotation from British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. This collection is full of its own surprises and hard-earned advice - communicated with the eloquence and clarity that only the world's finest writers could summon.

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The ideal keepsake for readers, writers and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words... Inspirational. —Artsbeat

The perfect recipe to get the creative juices flowing... Contains hundreds of insightful quotes by famous writers and personalities, from Jane Austen to Julian Barnes, Leo Tolstoy to Patti Smith, Virginia Woolf to Henry David Thoreau... [From] motivational to purely relatable. —CentMagazine.co.uk

Not just another book of trite quotes... Unlike much of this genre, it offers both useful advice and insight...Every Day A Word Surprises Metakes a very simple, not to say hackneyed format, and makes something really quite entertaining and useful out of it... Thanks to some imaginative categorisation and sourcing that takes in published interviews, private journals and letters, any writer will find something of use here... Thanks to the provision of proper sources for all the quotes, including links to web pages for many, they become startil£§