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Richard Cohen, a veteran editor and author, explores how the world's great novelists solved the craft problems every writer faces: finding a voice, building characters, choosing a point of view, revising, and writing a sex scene. He draws on Balzac, George Eliot, Woolf, Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Kerouac and Zadie Smith, with Tolstoy as a recurring touchstone. It is a craft book built on anecdote and close reading rather than a step-by-step manual, so it suits readers who want inspiration and literary company more than a formula. Compared with writing guides that prescribe rules, it shows how individual writers broke or bent them.
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Reviewers and writers respond to it as an inspiring, anecdote-rich tour of how great novelists worked rather than a practical manual. Hilary Mantel said it fired her imagination and that she had never annotated a book so fiercely. It was named one of The Spectator's books of the year.
How to Write Like Tolstoy looks inside the lives and minds of the world's most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King. Author Richard Cohen is a veteran editor and writer. He covers writers from Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot to Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith, with a few detours to visit Tolstoy along the way.
The book explores the tricks, motivations and techniques of the literary greats, along with their obsessions and flaws. It looks at how writers bring characters to life, find a voice, kill their darlings and write a sex scene. It also asks why Nabokov chose the name Lolita, why Fitzgerald used first-person narration in The Great Gatsby, and how Kerouac, who raged against revision, came to revise On the Road.
