How to Read Like a Writer
Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
One is that writing is linear and sequential. If sentence B logically follows sentence A, and if sentence C logically follows sentence B, I’ll eventually get to sentence Z. I also try to remember that the reader should be given only as much information as he needs and not one word more. Anything else is a self-indulgence.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
• Writing is like a stacked buffet, where it’s up to you to pick and choose what you want. • Don’t make your readers pick what’s
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
In writing, meaning derives from just four things: syntax, word choice, punctuation and typography. These four things, in that order of importance, must stand in for the unique print of a human voice.