How to Write Anything
As Hemingway supposedly said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
“Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
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Writing is a tool that enables people in every discipline to wrestle with facts and ideas. It’s a physical activity, unlike reading. Writing requires us to operate some kind of mechanism—pencil, pen, typewriter, word processor—for getting our thoughts on paper. It compels us by the repeated effort of language to go after those thoughts and to organ
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Such theorizing, however, is too vague to be useful here. It’s time to get down to fundamentals. What makes good writing good and bad writing bad? Here are some notions that are important to me.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Seeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in.