the art of writing
- Excellence is the war you wage until every trace of the struggle disappears
from 💥 Attaining Excellence with Airbnb, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Angelou, and more
sari added 14d ago
easy reading is hard writing
- There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own performance... See more
from Art, AI, and the Courage to Create by Hannah Close
sari added 2mo ago
- Needless to say, my ability in English composition didn’t amount to much. My vocabulary was severely limited, as was my command of English syntax. I could only write in simple, short sentences. That meant that, however complex and numerous the thoughts running around my head might be, I couldn’t even attempt to set them down as they came to me. The... See more
from Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist
gabriel added 3mo ago
- Yet it was through writing in that foreign language that she succeeded in developing a style that was new and uniquely hers. It featured a strong rhythm based on short sentences, diction that was never roundabout but always straightforward, and description that was apt and free of emotional baggage.
from Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist
gabriel added 3mo ago
- The kind we love is focused, challenging, sustained, with a pen in hand, making note of new turns of phrase and peculiar, precise words, and feeling our brains get ever-so-slightly reconfigured by the text. The kind of reading we love requires a piece of text be worked over so many times that the author probably never wants to see it again. The kin... See more
sari added 3mo ago
- 1. The aim of my writing is never to make money. If there are opportunities, I will pay attention, but it is never the direct aim. I obsessively focus on other funding mechanisms such that I don't have to worry much about how to monetize writing.
2. I write for readers like me. I dislike a lot of the current trends in books. I think they dumb down t... See morefrom Tweet by Paul Millerd
rob hardy added 5mo ago
‘We all have a story to tell – the denial of that story can cause despair.’ I credit this to Arnold Zable but I think it comes from Jungian psychology . We are nothing but the sum of our stories. The more I write and perform, the more clarity it gives me on my personal history and understanding of human nature. Writing releases so many emotions and
... See morefrom 242 / Housing That Fosters Belonging by Dense Discovery
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
- Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any one writer the proportions will vary from time to time, according to the atmosphere in which he is living. They are:
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talke... See morefrom Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation
sari added 6mo ago
- Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time.
from On Writing Well - by William Zinsser | Derek Sivers by Derek Sivers
phoebe added 6mo ago