The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing

Yagoda offers an in-depth look at the importance of a writer's individual style or voice, based on interviews with more than 40 outstanding contemporary writers. He points out, for instance, that Elmore Leonard and Toni Morrison avoid adverbs, while Christopher Hitchens uses them. n nIn 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: n nDave Barry nHarold Bloom nSupreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer nBill Bryson nMichael Chabon nAndrei Codrescu nJunot Díaz nAdam Gopnik nJamaica Kincaid nMichael Kinsley nElmore Leonard nElizabeth McCracken nSusan Orlean nCynthia Ozick nAnna Quindlen nJonathan Raban nDavid Thomson nTobias Wolffn