CONTENTS

THE QUOTABLE WRITER
by William A. Gordon

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Biography
  • Blurbs
  • Books
  • Censorship
  • Classics
  • Controversy
  • Creativity
  • Critics
  • Editors
  • Fame
  • Footnotes
  • Freelance Writers
  • Genius
  • Grammar
  • History, The Writing of
  • Hoaxes
  • How to Get Published (Advice)
  • Humor
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Insults, Memorable
  • Investigative Reporting
  • Irony
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Newswriting and Journalism
  • Novels
  • Originality
  • Perseverance
  • Plagiarism
  • Poetry
  • Posterity, Writing for
  • Publicity and Marketing
  • Publishers and Publishing
  • Publishing, Ethics in
  • Publishing, Scholarly
  • Quotes and Misquotes
  • Readers and Reading
  • Rejection
  • Research and Scholarship
  • Revisions
  • Satire
  • Screenwriting
  • Self-Deception
  • Self-Publishing
  • Spelling
  • Success and Failure
  • Talent
  • Television, Writing for
  • Wit
  • Word Economy
  • Writers and Writing
  • Index