Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

Why I Write

George Orwell

The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

Ralph Keyes

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

Becoming a Writer

Dorothea Brande

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

Brenda Ueland

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (FSG Classics)

Flannery O'Connor

Aspects of the Novel

E.M. Forster

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

Richard Hugo

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Francine Prose

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

John Gardner

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Margaret Atwood

Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

Ray Bradbury

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Vivian Gornick

The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke