Écriture : mémoires d'un métier

Mémoires d'un métier

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Stephen King: Écriture : mémoires d'un métier (French language, 2001, Éditions Albin Michel)

384 pages

French language

Published Feb. 22, 2001 by Éditions Albin Michel.

ISBN:
978-2-226-12670-2
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5 stars (2 reviews)

Quand Stephen King se décide à écrire sur son métier et sur sa vie, un brutal accident de la route met en péril l'un et l'autre. Durant sa convalescence, le romancier découvre les liens toujours plus forts entre l'écriture et la vie. Résultat : ce livre hors norme et génial, tout à la fois essai sur la création littéraire et récit autobiographique. Mais plus encore révélation de cette alchimie qu'est l'inspiration. Une fois encore Stephen King montre qu'il est bien plus qu'un maître du thriller : un immense écrivain.

source: www.albin-michel.fr/ouvrages/ecriture-memoires-dun-metier-9782226126702

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Excellent!

5 stars

I have never read a Stephen King book in my life but I enjoy reading about writers' experiences with their craft. This book was wonderful. Part memoir, part nuts-and-bolts practical advice, it was thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. So much so that now I'm waiting on a couple his fiction books at the library. Who knows, maybe I'll turn into a fan?

More a memoir than a how-to-write guide, but

4 stars

It's probably the closest we'll get to a proper memoir out of a very interesting & likeable guy, who's utterly unique in the publishing world.

Regardless of whether you are a fan of his actual output or not, you can't question his consistency, and as far as his style and approach to writing, he keeps it simple and straightforward, which for a beginning writer is really useful. And like all Stephen King works, it's an easy read that keeps moving.