- William Stafford, Crossing Unmarked Snow
- Annie Dillard, Living By Fiction
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
- Ernest Hemmingway on Writing
- Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings
- Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
- Stephen King, On Writing
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
- Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction
- Joy Harjo, The Spiral of Memory
- Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town
- Marguerite Duras, Writing
- E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
- Allen Ginsberg, Composed on the Tongue