Writing
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Writing
I want to do is write serious, complicated, difficult things in a very easy style that is fluid and comfortable to read.
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
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Write in the tone of the body
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The writing mind is able to go deep because it keeps the focus constant. You can explore ideas with levels of logic and rigor that the thinking mind can’t achieve on its own.
The thinking mind moves horizontally.
The writing mind moves vertically.
The thinking mind moves horizontally.
The writing mind moves vertically.
David Perell • Tweet
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a novel is like a party. Anybody who wants to join in can join in, and those who wish to leave can do so whenever they want.” So, how do you invite people and things to this party? Or how do you get to a place when you’re writing where they can come uninvited?
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
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Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves, as if they were working on any other project that requires logic: … doing an algebra problem.
Good writing doesn’t come naturally, though most people seem to think it does.
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
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Opinion | The City Looks Different When You’re Older
nytimes.com
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TextFX
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Greil Marcus: "Why I Write"
yalereview.org
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“I realized I had a choice as a writer: make the world bigger and more interesting and live in that world, and find a life’s work, or shrink everything down to your own crabbed and paltry self, hang on for years conning editors and publishers and yourself, and find your life’s a lie.”
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