Bitch Media: 10 Essential Books About Writing

Written in a bare, stream-of-consciousness style, these five essays are masterful.
Celebrated writer Marguerite Duras on the artistic processSignificantly one of her last works, Writing is celebrated French novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker Marguerite Duras’s mediation on why writing was essential for her, and why solitude was a key component of her process. Written in a bare, stream-of-consciousness style, these five essays are masterful. Duras compares the process of developing style to a dying fly in this stunning, nearly confessional work of writing from one of the most dynamic writers of the 20th century.