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• Get inspired to write with these tips from great novelists, poets and playwrights.

  

• Reading and Listening List 鈥� The Invisible College

  At Radio 4 we expect you to work for your radio treats. Here鈥檚 your Invisible College Homework - further reading and listening, set by Cathy Fitzgerald.

• Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to Work by Mason Currey

  Somerset Maugham found his opening lines in the bath. Edith Sitwell wrote in bed. Saul Bellow stood on his head to take a break. This funny, wide-ranging compendium by Mason Currey includes the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty philosophers, writers, composers and artists.听

• The British Library鈥檚 Spoken Word Collection

  Archive recordings of great writers - including many from the 大象传媒 - collected in an extensive series of CDs. The backbone of my research for 鈥楾he Invisible College鈥�. Don鈥檛 miss Nancy Mitford bemoaning her inability to add up and spell (The Spoken Word: British Writers).

• Brainpickings

  Maria Popova鈥檚 brilliant 鈥樷�� regularly includes great authors鈥� tips on writing and life. My highlight is F. Scott Fitzgerald鈥檚 letter to Frances Turnbull, a wannabe writer. 鈥淵ou鈥檝e got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner.鈥�

• Writers at Work

  This series from The Paris Review features interviews with all the greats, including TS Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker. Each conversation is introduced with a word-sketch of the writer鈥檚 study (George Plimpton鈥檚 description of Hemingway鈥檚 room is so detailed and visual you鈥檒l feel like you鈥檙e there).听

• The Poetry Center

  From its home in听New York - 92nd Street - The Poetry Society has hosted literary readings since 1939. Its website features archival recordings of some of the best writers of all time. Search for Truman Capote鈥檚 1963 reading of 鈥楤reakfast at Tiffany鈥檚鈥�.

• The 大象传媒 Archive Collection

  Highlights from the , featuring interviews with everyone from Aldous to Zadie. Includes a rare recording of Virginia Woolf.

  听Plus these great writers on writing:听

  • Poetry in the Making, Ted Hughes
  • On Writing Eudora Welty
  • Henry Miller on Writing, Henry Miller
  • Ernest Hemingway on Writing, Ed. Larry W. Phillips
  • Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury
  • On Writing, Stephen King
  • Elmore Leonard鈥檚 10 Rules of Writing, Elmore Leonard
  • The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer

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