The Best Way to Fuel Your Writing Career: Find Dead Mentors

Elizabeth Gilbert, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Sedaris all tapped the wisdom of deceased authors. So should we.

Bobby Powers
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readAug 26, 2021

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“I wouldn’t be writing the way I write now if I hadn’t read Lewis Carroll. And I wouldn’t be writing the way I write now if I hadn’t read James Joyce…All writers have mentors.”…

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