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Sound on the Page, The

In writing, style matters. Our favorite writers often entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it. In The Sound on the Page, acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive help for writers on developing and discovering their own style and voice. This wonderfully rich and readable book features interviews with more than 40 of our most important authors discussing their literary style, including:

Dave Barry
Harold Bloom
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Bill Bryson
Michael Chabon
Andrei Codrescu
Junot Díaz
Adam Gopnik
Jamaica Kincaid
Michael Kinsley
Elmore Leonard
Elizabeth McCracken
Susan Orlean
Cynthia Ozick
Anna Quindlen
Jonathan Raban
David Thomson
Tobias Wolff

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Title of ebook: Sound on the Page, The
ISBN: 9780061584909
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Internet download file size: 2234 kb
Pages: 304
Released online for download: 02-26-2008
Author of eBook: Yagoda, Ben

The Sound on the Page

Style and Voice in Writing

Chapter One

The History of an Idea

We can turn to etymology to understand the origin of the meaning of style -- but only at the risk of being seriously misled. The English word style is derived from the Latin stilus, meaning a pointed instrument for writing. It later came to refer to what was done with the instrument -- that is, the way words are arranged. Here's the misleading part: the concept of style was invented by the Greeks (they called it lexis), and they would never have named it after a writing tool. All ancient notions about putting words together assumed that the primary means of communicating them was speech. Sometimes the words were written down, to aid memory or ensure future availability, but the ultimate me ... read full excerpt from Sound on the Page, The ebook