How To Be A Writer is a collection of interviews with famous writers, performers and industry insiders that takes the reader through a writer’s day, from getting up to giving in. And, along the way, asks: When do you get ideas? When should you write? How do you deal with your money? Who do you have lunch with? And how do you keep going?
Featuring JON RONSON, EMMA DONOGHUE, DENNIS KELLY, CAITLIN MORAN, JASON HAZELEY, JOEL MORRIS, SUZANNE MOORE, CATHERINE ROSENTHAL, MARK ELLEN, JOHN PANTON, JO UNWIN, MARTYN WAITES, MARK BILLINGHAM, ISZI LAWRENCE
David Quantick is an Emmy-winning television writer and the author of the best-selling writing manual How To Write Everything. He has written for television in the USA (Veep) and the UK (The Thick Of It, Brass Eye, Harry Hill’s TV Burp), and is also a radio broadcaster (The Blagger’s Guide, 52 First Impressions), author (The Mule, Sparks) and a journalist who’s written for over 50 different publications, from the Daily Telegraph to The Dandy.
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David Quantick knows nothing about writing. I know nothing about writing. This should be good. -- Chris Morris If only Morrissey had read this book. -- John Niven, author of 'Kill Your Friends'
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Advice from agents, publishers, best-selling authors and more - to help you BE the writer you want to be.
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1 Jon Ronson -- `The Fun Is When You're The Idiot' |
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2 Emma Donoghue -- The Crazy Stitching Of The World' |
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3 Suzanne Moore -- `I Kind Of Eavesdrop A Lot' |
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4 Catherine Rosenthal -- `Lovely Interesting People Who Are Great To Wirt With' |
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5 John Panton -- `I Want To Make Big Films That Will Be Probably Be A Bit Odd' |
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6 Jo Unwin -- `I Read Through Endless, Endless, Endless Crap' |
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7 Dennis Kelly -- `I Mean This' |
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8 Martyn Waites and Mark Billingham -- "Darkness Seems To Suit What We're Writing' |
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9 Iszi Lawrence -- `Stand-Up Is A Conversation' |
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10 Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris -- `We Like To Take The Piss Out Of Things That Already Exist' |
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11 Mark Ellen -- `Enthusiasm Is The Most Important Thing' |
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12 Caitlin Moran -- `Write The Weird Stuff, Write The Shameful Stuff' |
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David Quantick really has written everything. He recently won an Emmy for his work on HBO's Veep and wrote the critically-praised Sky Arts Playhouse, Snodgrass. As a television writer, he has also written for The Thick Of It, The Day Today, Brass Eye, TV Burp and many other shows. As a radio writer, he created Radio 4's One and Radio 2's The Blagger's Guide. His novel Sparks was described as "excellent" by Neil Gaiman and his graphic series Louis Wain (created with Savage Pencil) was published in Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic. As well as a series of music books and the official biography of Eddie Izzard, David wrote the Sunday Times best-seller Grumpy Old Men and has written for over 50 magazines and newspapers, from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph to NME and Q. With Jane Bussmann, he created the world's first internet sitcom, The Junkies, and he is also the writer of several short films, including the highly-acclaimed Lot 13.
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