The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear is unlike many previous how-to books about writing. Why? Because most books focus on how to overcome fear. Keyes bases his book on the premise that writers should face their fear and transcend it through courage.
Trenton Times
His book taught me more about the “creative process” than all the writers’ voices shelved in my bookstore’s “elite corps.” Keyes succeeds where others have failed because he understands that “There are very few ‘writing problems’ as such; only human ones.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Keyes can be helpful to fledgling writers who are struggling with doubt and lack of confidence. The Courage to Write can be read in times of tribulation, much like a collection of inspirational verses, then put away when the words are flowing.
San Diego Magazine
Keyes provides compelling reading for writers at all levels, from student to journeyman.
Columbus Dispatch
Highly readable and laced with true-confession anecdotes about the trepidations that dog most writers, Keyes’s book is an attempt to show nervous novices how to turn fear toward more productive ends.
Fresno Bee
Anyone who is a writer, wants to be a writer or knows a writer will want to pick up a copy of The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes. It is one of the best books about the writing profession ever published.