The Mystery of Great Writers | Creativity Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Listen to episode 1071 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Mystery of the Great Writer. Edited and adapted from “Campfires & Guideposts” by Henry van Dyke.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IT is a curious fact that there is no good guide book to authorship. There are, of course, lots of self-portraits of authors at work. And there are many essays upon the craft of writing in general. The best of these portraits and advice are excellent reading, full of entertainment and instruction for the alert and candid mind, and touched with a special, sympathetic interest for those young persons who have sternly resolved, or fondly dreamed, that they will follow a literary career.
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| 1:48.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Campfires and guideposts by Henry Van Dyke, published in 1921. |
| 2:11.6 | Music It is a curious fact that there is no good guidebook to authorship. There are of course lots of self-portraits of authors at work, and there are many essays upon the craft of writing |
| 2:20.5 | in general. The best of these portraits and advice are excellent reading, full of entertainment |
| 2:28.1 | and instruction for the alert and candid mind, and touched with a special, sympathetic interest for those young persons who |
| 2:38.3 | have sternly resolved or fondly dreamed that they will follow a literary career. |
| 2:46.4 | A volume of carefully selected material of this kind might be made attractive and rewarding |
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