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“Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone” And Other Advice from James Baldwin
- Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.... See morefrom 3-2-1: How to time travel, the power of reading, and being grateful when you don't have what you want by James Clear
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- INTERVIEWER: As your experience about writing accrues, what would you say increases with knowledge?
BALDWIN: You learn how little you know. It becomes much more difficult because the hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. It becomes more difficult because you have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of w... See morefrom James Baldwin: “You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” by Cynthia Haven
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"Write in a way that comes naturally," "Revise and rewrite," "Do not explain too much," and the rest; above all, the cleansing, clarion "Be clear."
from The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk JR. and E.B. White