How to Become a Writer (Annotated)

How to Become a Writer is a brisk, practical meditation on literary apprenticeship, treating authorship not as a mystical vocation but as a disciplined craft. Bennett's prose is lucid, urbane, and characteristically unsentimental, combining Edwardian common sense with a novelist's sensitivity to habit, observation, and form. Situated within the early twentieth-century tradition of self-culture man...