‘Catherine is one of the most extraordinarily motivating writing-champions in the world. Use Your Words will act like a rocket in your back-pocket, as it does in mine.’
CLARE BOWDITCH, MUSICIAN AND RADIO PRESENTER
‘This book is brilliant. I wish I’d read it decades ago. Use Your Words is well-written, honest, heartfelt and genuinely motivating.
MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE, WRITER AND SLAM POET
‘Catherine Deveny uses all words brilliantly but she uses swear words like an old master. That’s one reason why she’s so much fun to read.’
JANE CARO, WRITER AND SOCIAL COMMENTATOR
‘If you’ve always wanted to write seriously, in Use Your Words Deveny provides the kick-up-the-arse you’ve been gagging for.’
BENJAMIN LAW, AUTHOR AND COLUMNIST
‘With a brilliant mix of insight, humour, candour and swearing Catherine Deveny wrestles to the ground a problem as old as the book itself. If you’re having trouble using your words, simply read hers.’
LOUISE FOX, ACTOR, WRITER AND DIRECTOR
‘Catherine Deveny’s words on writing are wise, witty and wonderfully inspiring for writers of any genre or style. Every writer’s desk should have one.’
JACQUELIN PERSKE, WRITER AND PRODUCER
‘Knocks down every barrier to writing. Inspirational, practical and entertaining in equal parts. Reading this will make you want to write.’
STEVE ELLEN, PSYCHIATRIST AND AUTHOR
‘Use Your Words is a fresh and powerful inspiration to and for anyone who wishes to write, with all the hints, tips and tricks that have made Dev’s Gunnas Masterclasses so successful. That she manages to deliver it all in her frank, arresting and yet ever-loveable style is the proof she really does know what she’s talking about.’
VAN BADHAM, WRITER AND SOCIAL COMMENTATOR
‘Quite simply, the best book about writing you’ll ever read. A defiant middle finger to pedants and gatekeepers everywhere, you won’t find a thing about split infinitives or other rubbish rules. Just damn good advice, from someone who’s actually done it – and rather brilliantly at that. A few chapters in, and you’ll be bursting to write.’
MICHAEL LALLO, JOURNALIST, THE AGE
‘Use Your Words lingers like one of those rare, powerful conversations with a close friend, where the mental dust settles and you finish feeling energised, confident, assured and, best of all, smiling. It bristles with a care and wisdom so elemental that it transcends advice on writing and becomes a reminder of what makes a happy life.’
DANIEL BURT, WRITER AND COMEDIAN