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Burning Desire
How to Write Without Dying
- Author: DBC Pierre
- Category: Non-fiction How-to
- Publisher: Faber & Faber (UK)
- Pub date: Winter 2012
- Length: 100,000 words approx
About Burning Desire
Pierre’s writing is heady, reaching glorious heights of linguistic invention
- INDEPENDENT on LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND
The more implausible life grows, the more important strong fiction becomes; and now it seems everyone is writing a novel. It’s said that everyone has a book inside them – but where inside does it live? How do we get it out?
When DBC Pierre burst onto the literary scene in 2003 he arrived with no particular literary education and without years of practice. Finding he had something to say he made the journey solo to that place where dreams and demons live, to try and turn feelings into words.
BURNING DESIRE aims to explore the mysteries of why and how we tell our stories, and the craft of writing fiction from scratch, proposing a new way to approach the job and its frustrations. Part biography, part reflection, and part practical guide, DBC Pierre here invests everything he learned the hard way, in a book aimed at anyone with a love of ideas, reading, and curious life; plus notes for those with something to say.
About the Author
DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Ireland. His first novel, VERNON GOD LITTLE, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize, and is sold in 43 countries.