The book “How to Become a Writer” has long earned the status of a classic guide for aspiring authors. Since its publication in 1934, it has helped overcome the difficulties that writers of all times face: the fear of a blank page, creative stagnation, loss of inspiration, inability to realize the idea. Using time-tested techniques and exercises, Dorothea Brand shows how to discover your inexhaustible source of inspiration, access and tame the riches of irrational creativity. From the book you will learn how to create conditions for yourself to work productively and acquire useful writing habits; restore the sharpness and freshness of perception in order to always have material for books; read other authors correctly without falling into imitation; have a good rest, so that you can then create with renewed vigor, and much more. Published in Russian for the first time.