writer's (un)block
There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own... See more
Hannah Close • Art, AI, and the Courage to Create
The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us to confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
One trouble with blogging is that people subscribe to the blog , rather than each post finding its own audience. This encourages lowest common denominator writing. In particular it creates a context in which depth is penalized
How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too,”
The allure of a good book: how is it possible that you came up with that sentence in your mind.
How to Master Writing - David Perell interview with Morgan Housel
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
Writing is refined thinking.