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Es war ja nicht so, als könnte ich die Schule nicht leiden. Ich ging sogar ganz gerne hin. Wegen der Leute. Was also gewissermaßen erklärte, wofür ich nicht hinging. Mir war nicht klar, wie Alma das machte oder Johann. Ich hatte einfach immer so viele Geschichten und Bilder und Vorstellungen und Träume im Kopf, dass zwischen Brasilien und nun auch
... See moreEwald Arenz • Der Große Sommer
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
Write only when you have something to say, do not inflate the void with plastic flowers
Do not tell the reader how to feel, make them feel it themselves
Set every word with both purpose and emotion
Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.
The Bell Jar
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Best metaphors and similes you will ever read – and you won’t notice you read them
– Harry Dry
You need to first review your interests, your curiosities, and your style to determine the foundation of where your stories will come from. Understand who you are before learning what resonates with others.
Lawrence Yeo • The Three Types of Writing
Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else. It is not a coincidence that all of literature and poetry, history and philosophy, mathematics, logic, programming and engineering rely on textual encodings for their ideas.