the art of writing
advice from writers, and more on writing
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the art of writing
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know”—a sentence, he added, without “scrollwork or ornament.”
I’ve done many things to earn a living over the decades—from playing the piano to problem-solving in foreign climes—but writing is now my main focus. And the writing draws on all these earlier experiences.
This is the challenge many young writers face. They need to experience life in order to write about it. But that takes time.
This is the challenge many young writers face. They need to experience life in order to write about it. But that takes time.
An Interview With Ted Gioia
How to Write – A memo drafted by David Ogilvy on September 7, 1982, for the management to circulate as they saw fit.
It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say, I was just writing to the wrong people about the wrong things.