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the art of writing
"The answer is, that the book is for me. I wrote it for me. I wrote Psychology of Money for me. I wrote all my blog posts for me. I call it selfish writing. An audience of one."
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"It's death to try to chase the culture. Be true to quality. Be true to your own values. There are people who are hungry for something more substantive."
— @tedgioia https://t.co/9Wh5Iq1iWA
David Perellx.comThe COMPOSE Backstory — Ellen Fishbein
ellenrhymes.com
When I have a problem, and it’s proving difficult to solve, I’ll often go on a walk about it, go talk to a friend about it, go try to solve it again. But when it’s proving intransigent, I’ll go write an essay proving why it just cannot be solved. That almost always fixes it.
Emmett Sheartwitter.comThe trick to writing well is to...
- take long sentences and make them short
- take confusing ideas and make them clear
- take unrelated concepts and make them related
...without losing the main idea in the process.
nametwitter.comOn 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
To be clear, concluding in brief: there is enough for all. So there should be no more people living in poverty. And there should be no more billionaires.
Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is a good as a feast— or better.
Arranging this situation is left as an... See more
Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is a good as a feast— or better.
Arranging this situation is left as an... See more
Ministry for The Future - Kim Stanley Robinson.
How to Write – A memo drafted by David Ogilvy on September 7, 1982, for the management to circulate as they saw fit.