In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful.
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Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.
I tend to read non-fiction.
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'
Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.
Stephen King's 'On Writing' is probably the most useful writing book I've ever read.