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What People Are Saying About
Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul...

How does one become a writer? Its the question weve all asked, and within these covers are the answers of those who know.

Tony Hillerman
author, Hunting Badger and twenty-odd novels,
Grand Master Award Winner, Mystery Writers of America
and Spur Award Winner, Western Writers of America

Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul speaks to the very essence of every writer. These stories will make you chuckle, wipe a tear from your eye and inspire you to keep writing.

Melanie Rigney
editor, Writers Digest magazine

Any book that tells the truth about what its like to be a writer has to say how hard and time-consuming it is, as well as how occasionally wonderful. To its great credit, this book does just that.

John F. Baker
editorial director, Publishers Weekly

This is a wonderful book, full of warmth, insights, inspiration and ideas for all those who aspire to write for others.

Brian Tracy
author, Psychology of Achievement, Maximum Achievement
and Success Is a Journey

You wont want to put this book down. Each heartfelt story will grab you and not let go. Its an easy read because these professional writers know how to spin a good yarn. As a pleasurable read, this book is a must for learning centers and school libraries everywhere.

Kathy Carpenter
director, The Learning Center, University of Nebraska,
Kearney, and past president, College Reading and Learning
Association (CRLA)

Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul will rekindle the spirits and open the hearts of writers everywhere. I highly recommend it to all writers and would-be writers.

Dr. Albert J. Geritz
chair, English Department, Fort Hays State University,
Hays, Kansas

Informative. Intriguing. Confirms once and for all: Soup is good food.

Ridley Pearson
author, Middle of Nowhere, The First Victim
and other bestselling novels

Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul is the best writing companion I have ever found. It is like a support group between the covers of a book. I highly recommend it to all writers and student writers everywhere.

John Tullius
author, Body of Crime, Against the Law and twelve other
books and director, Maui Writers Retreat and Conference

Students enjoy the Teenage Soul books. Finally, we have a Chicken Soup for the Soul book on writing. With Writers Soul, students will not only learn to write better, they now can chart a career path with their writing skills.

Kathy Krape
chair, English Department, Heritage High School,
Littleton, Colorado

Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul makes authors human beings in the eyes of the novice reader. It inspires confidence in urging one to get back on the horse.

Thomas R. Dayton
president-elect, College Reading and
Learning Association (CRLA)

Students learn to read and write by studying good examples. The excellent stories in this book will help inspire students to write their own essays, journal entries and short stories. I recommend it as a reader.

Dr. Robert Frew
dean, English Department, American River College,
Sacramento, California

Read on, and then write on!

Michael Berberich
textbook author and English teacher at Galveston College, Texas

CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE
WRITERS SOUL

Stories to Open the Heart and
Rekindle the Spirit of Writers

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Bud Gardner

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

I have come to believe that there are no newplots and few new stories, only unusual recombinationsof things that have been told before. But what is new,and fresh and original is the authors lens through whichthese situations are viewed. Our gift, and consequentlyour responsibility as writers, is to view life situations in ournaturally unique way and report the truth about theirmeanings and values to the reading public so they can havefresh insight into the human condition. We are each uniquein the universe and, therefore, so are the stories we tell.

Elizabeth Engstrom

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.He is immortal, not because he alone among creatureshas an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, aspirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.The poets, the writers, duty is to write about these things.It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart,by reminding him of the courage and honor and hopeand pride and compassion and pity and sacrificewhich have been the glory of his past. The poets voiceneed not merely be the record of man, it can be one of theprops, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

William Faulkner
Excerpt from his Acceptance Speech
for the Nobel Prize for Literature
December 10, 1950, Stockholm, Sweden

RUBES. Reprinted by permission of Leigh Rubin and Creators Syndicate.

Contents

Judith A. Chance

Ernest J. Gaines

Ruben Navarrette Jr.

Gordon Burgett

Cheewa James

Josie Willis

Bud Gardner

Larry Wilde

Terry McMillan

Lawrence Block

Barnaby Conrad

Christine Clifford

Kate M. Brausen

Gene Perret

Gregory Poirier

Frank Harvey

Noel Phillip Rodriguez

Naida West

Cookie Potter

Nora Profit

Dierdre W. Honnold

Bud Gardner

Michele Bazan Reed

Catharine Bramkamp

Elizabeth Engstrom

Sue Grafton

Howard Fast

Dan Millman

Irving Wallace

Marilyn Pribus

John Tullius

Ed Robertson

Bud Gardner

Steve Allen

Connie Shelton

Pat Gallant

Art Linkletter

Dottie Walters

Jennifer Martin

Reg Green

Richard Paul Evans

Claire Braz-Valentine