Few Life changing writers

I am trying to note good authors and their books for my reference.

Philosophy Section

1. Growing up Absurd by Paul Goodman
2. Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
3. Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

Fiction books

Tips for Best Selling Writers

Its post of Creative Writing -3.

These tips can be used by anyone, who wants to become a world famous writer.

1. Be Receptive & Free Thinker:  ‘Imagination is the basic principle of fiction.’ If you want to write, you must have ideas in your mind and ideas won’t come into mind as soon as you sit for writing. Brain is powerhouse of ideas. It is continuously and unconsciously thinking. Every single idea is the spark of creative imagination, but only if you are able to recognize it. Keep a pencil and notepad with you always if possible. Whenever any idea pops up into mind, jot down on the note.  You may scribble few lines of plot.  Even it is not a novel writing, when you sit especially for writing a novel, read the precious ideas germinated at free time and practice appending the lines ahead. Start completing the lucid chain of thoughts.
2. Identify the idea: Never get disappointed if you think, ‘I cannot write’. Every best selling writer has gone through this phase.  Second part of this tip is to be a free thinker. Whatever you read, whatever you observe, whatever you watch, whatever you believe, accept the thoughts and filter them for your purpose. Observe the people. Observe how they speak, how they walk, how they behave.  Observe the crowd. Write single sentence on every observation.
3. Write every day: Imagine your favorite song. Who has sung that song? The person must be a well known singer. When singer practices, He does it every day. When he misses singing a single day, it affects the song. It is easily observable by everyone. One day of missing practice reduces the excellence. Second day miss out is identifiable by his teacher. Third day miss out is easily observable by audience. So, be disciplined of writing. Write minimum hundred lines every day. Make this as a habit. Remember, ‘Practice makes man perfect.’
4. Don’t expect miracles in a single day: You cannot write first fiction as a bestselling. You write the plot. Read out the idea after couple of days. How did you felt? If you find the same passion and meaningfulness that you had while writing. Then, this is somewhat effective. Otherwise rework on the lines and ideas. Working on writing fiction is re working on the writing. Working means re working.
5. Get the feedback from readers: You are writing keeping in mind that it is going to be read by others. So, after writing and couple of self review, Give it to your friends or relatives and ask how they felt your idea. Analyze how much idea has been communicated. Again rework on the plot changes the fallacious lines, until you feel, these are the final words.

Creative Writing -2

Stephen King is a celebrated fiction writer. He wrote gripping novels like The Stand, Under the dome with more than thousand pages. One interviewer asked a question to him, ‘How do you write a novel of more than thousand pages?’

King answered, ‘Word by Word.’ Answer of three words would not surprise you, but tells the gist of writing.

Secrete of Best selling Fiction Writer is the first few sentences of the book. People pick up the book by just reading first few lines of a book. If these first few made them to read further, book is best selling. It is the fact. So, Famous writers laboriously work out on the first few lines of book.

About first sentence: If the first sentence is a boring fallacious argument and has no appeal to read further, no one will take interest in reading the book. This starting sentence should grip the reader to go ahead and try to unravel what you wanted to say. It should be able to produce the curiosity to read next line. Most of the lines must be indirectly linked to each other. It would not how many words are in the sentence.

And Booker goes to Philip Roth..!

Philip Roth receives The Man booker prize of year 2011. This awards is given for his all work of art in lifetime. His masterpieces include Goodbye Columbus ,Portnoy’s Complaint  and Nemesis ( published in 2010).

Philip Roth

He has won among the following shorlisted authors.

Booker Shortlists of year 2011:
Wang Anyi ,Juan Goytisolo , James Kelman , John le Carré , Amin Maalouf , David Malouf , Dacia Maraini, Rohinton Mistry , Philip Pullman , Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth,Su Tong , Anne Tyler

Few concerns are rasied over this prize. One of the judges of Booker refute the uprightness of this decision. She has fretted, “did not rate him as a writer… He goes on and on about the same subject in almost every book. It’s as though he’s sitting on your face and you can’t breathe.” Yes, well, Mr Roth can be a little priapic in his preoccupations. Sometimes that works”

After long discussion it is concluded that, booker is given for all writing during his life time. One book store owner expressed..’Roth wrote Goodbye Columbus’ in 1950 and again after a 55 years the same author could wrote popular novel like nemesis. Rarely author could preserve the creativity and writing for more than half century. It is a marvelous achievement.

Books by Philip Roth:
“The Breast”, “When She Was Good”, “Our Gang” and “The Humbling”, “Portnoy’s Complaint” “American Pastoral”, “The Human Stain” and “I Married a Communist”

Emma Thomson’s Book that made a difference

Emma Thomson has expressed feeling of gratitude towards the books. She is reading books from childhood and nurtured her thought by reading book. Oprah Winfray asks her to tell top ten books from her list of reading. Following is the top ten lists by her.

Everynone loves Emma Thompson

In Her words
“When I got the directive to choose seven books, I practically had a nervous breakdown. I’m an addictive reader, and I just couldn’t manage to limit myself. Finally, I thought to attach each selection to a particular time in my life. Even though I’m not 49 yet, I did seven lots of seven. I tend to think things go in sevens in life anyway—don’t they say Saturn returns at the age of 28? Not that I’m particularly into astrology, but seven-year turnarounds do seem to be very powerful. It was interesting, actually, to examine what books fell into what period of my life—when I was most obsessed with story, and when I was most obsessed with nonfiction.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. After my father died, the book that sort of saved my life was Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Because of that experience, I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something.

And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.”

1. The Tale of Mr. Tod by Beatrix Potter
2. The valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Naked Lunch By William S. Burroughs
4. Three Guineas By Viginia Woolf
5. Season of Blood By Fergal Keane
6. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall By Spike Milligan
7. The Vintner’s Luck By Elizabeth Knox
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude