Using clear, concise writing, Sophy Burnham presents a collection of thoughts, stories, and quotations that will warm the heart of any writer. Sophy guides us though the craft of writing with vivid details of personal experiences, stories about the writing life, and quotations you will want to clip out and paste on the wall above your writing space. She covers the entire span of a writer's life and work from awakening the muse to successful publicaton.

Sophy's book motivated me to take a fresh, successful, approach to my writing style and formulate new work habits. The book also helped dispell the confusion and misconceptions about how-to-write that plagued me as a novice writer. With Sophy's guidance, I began to focus on my own style and gave me hope that I too could become successful writer.

The honest and open approach Sophy Burnham uses to describe the writing life. I also like the fact that this book is an extremely easy read!

Finding myself reading the last page.

Hold it close, smell the ink and paper, and begin reading it again. Well almost, my copy is filled with underlined passages and margin notes. I want to keep this book close to my writing desk for those moments when I need another infusion of hope.

Like I need to immediately sit down and write a review for posting on writing.com.

Sophy Burnham on writing, "In the privacy of their most secret hearts, most writers, artists, actors, and musicians believe their talent is a gift. It comes from beyond self, crashing over them unexpectedly - with joy. It is received, therefore with awe and in humility."

Sophy Burnham on rewriting, "The finer the material, as a general rule, the more it has been smoothed to arrive at its final stage."

The book is an inspirational gold mine, the perfect writer's companion.

A quote from the book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Easy reading is damned hard writing."

My beautiful, fist addition hardcover, (Sophy Burnham. For Writers Only. Ballantine Books; New York, 1994. ISBN 0-345-37317-0) is no longer in print.

The book is an inspirational gold mine, the perfect writer's companion.

A quote from the book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Easy reading is damned hard writing."

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