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the art of writing
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On writing about what you know, via Robert Pirsig (1974 interview):
... See moreWrite about what you know. And he said, if you write about what you know and you do it carefully and sincerely and make sure it's really what you know, that'll be plenty exotic to everybody else in this book. I've really tried to do that, and I've tried to justify what I've done to
the secret to good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
- Richard Harding Davis