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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
4.27 average rating, · 130.1k ratings
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
4.12 average rating, · 46k ratings
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Ray Bradbury
4.08 average rating, · 21.8k ratings
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Why I Write
George Orwell
4.01 average rating, · 16k ratings
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
4.17 average rating, · 11k ratings
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Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
4.30 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
Brenda Ueland
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The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit
4.21 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01 average rating, · 8.9k ratings
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
4.09 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
4.00 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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On Connection
Kae Tempest
4.14 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.56 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte
4.45 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 6k ratings
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The Courage to Create
Rollo May
4.06 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Hero's Adventure: Power of Myth 1
Joseph Campbell
4.37 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis
4.20 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
4.42 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
4.16 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.33 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
Stephen Nachmanovitch
4.20 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
Marc Bloch
4.09 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Joseph Campbell
4.29 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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