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Margaret Atwood's 2003 book collects her Empson Lectures on what it means to be a writer, drawing on her own career and on writers from Kafka to Dickens. It is part memoir, part literary criticism, and part practical reflection on voice, audience, and the double life of the author. Readers who want craft advice in the how-to sense will find less of it than in a manual; those who want a thoughtful, witty essay on the writing life get one of the better books in that genre. It sits closer to Stephen King's On Writing in tone than to a textbook, though Atwood is more literary and more digressive.
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Reviewers and owners generally praise the book as an intelligent, witty look at the writing life rather than a how-to guide. Many value Atwood's range of literary reference and her candor about the trade-offs of being a writer. Some readers who expected concrete craft advice found it abstract.
