Exercises in Style

"Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, in which Queneau tells the same banal story in 99 different ways, because both of those books naturally lead to some really fun prompts and field trips."

"Starting out as a writer, I recall reading Exercises in Style, by Raymond Queneau, which retells the same scene in 99 different ways. Before then, I think I had only one idea of what writing a book should look like, and that idea felt rather serious and dramatic. From Exercises I learned that writing could — and should — be playful, an experiment."

"I reference it all the time whenever I want to shake up my style or laugh at all the ways one might say the same thing."