the art of writing
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the art of writing
I used to feel that everything had been said already. But the more I write, the more I feel that there is so much left to be said.
Henrik Karlssonx.comWhat I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.
-George Saunders
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Sarah Wrightproducthunt.com
In my experience, there is no such thing as “clerical work” in writing: the donkey work is crucial to the process, as is having to sort through the mess of the draft — that’s the art of self-editing, and it’s the art of finding what you didn’t know you were looking for
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... See more
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be... See more
Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation
i can’t believe this is the first time i read this.
The 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.comthe 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
