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Books mentioned in How to Become a Master Storyteller (Steven Pressfield Interview)
From How I Write · 2026-03-04
All matched books in this episode
“the one that like the emperor's new clothes that sees truth”
“talented Mr. Ripley? >> Yes.”
“from one flew over the coop Oh yeah. Well, Jack Nicholson is this”
“all is lost moment. In Silence of the Lambs, um Clarice Stalling gets stripped”
“case. In the French connection, Gene Hackman and Roy Shider have to turn in”
“Braveheart taught me and um it was that the first act kind of introduces the”
“godfather, the first Godfather in the second act, you have Salato, the”
“Iliad or the Odyssey or Shakespeare anything legends you know the hero does”
“earlier, David, in Moby Dick, which has no female characters at all. The sea is”
“curse to go back to Shane that I know you haven't seen but this was it this”
“trilogy of the Oristia is where at the start of the Trojan War, the the first”
“play is called Agamemnon. Agamemnon is the king going to Troy and they are”
“let's say um Wizard of Oz the story starts out act one is the ordinary world”
“before. Listen to this from Tol. >> Okay. It was at this point that Bilbo”
“Huckleberry Finn, it's got to be the moment where he's supposed to write the”
“writing sort of like Don Kiod like Cervantes would have written in those”