Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Start by marking “The Autobiography of Jack Woodford” as Want to Read:
The Autobiography of Jack Woodford
349 pages
Published
May 2012
by askmar publishing
(first published 1962)
Reader Q&A
To ask other readers questions about
The Autobiography of Jack Woodford
,
please sign up
.
Be the first to ask a question about The Autobiography of Jack Woodford
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-4
of
4)
Jan 30, 2014
Xenophon Hendrix
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
writers, libertarians, students of the first half of the twentieth century
Jack Woodford, the pen name of Josiah Pitts Woolfolk, is known today, to the extent he is known at all, as the author of how-to-write-fiction books. He has largely been forgotten, but I believe his books, along with Dwight V. Swain's
Techniques of the Selling Writer
, are the best fictioneer texts to be found.
In his heyday, Woodford's how-to-do-it tomes were well regarded by writers, but he was also known as a popular author of novels, short stories, and films. His preferred topic was sex, but th ...more
In his heyday, Woodford's how-to-do-it tomes were well regarded by writers, but he was also known as a popular author of novels, short stories, and films. His preferred topic was sex, but th ...more
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
“Louella remarked that when foreign nations had intercourse with this country they knew they had been intercoursed.”
—
0 likes
“As though she were asking me where some sort of unusual wine could be obtained, she inquired fretfully and worriedly: 'Jack, have you any idea where I could find some presentable loose women?' I had no idea where she could find anything else. At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.”
—
0 likes
More quotes…
