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Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
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On Writing Well
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While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw – that of outright unreadability.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In this chapter I have tried to call your attention to many of the writerly habits that result in soggy prose: metadiscourse, signposting, hedging, apologizing, professional narcissism, clichés, mixed metaphors, metaconcepts, zombie nouns, and unnecessary passives. Writers who want to invigorate their prose could try to memorize that list of don’ts
... See moreSteven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
sentence, too, should rely more on quality ingredients than baroque artifice.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
There were, early on, certain aspects of this case that seemed not well handled by the police and prosecutors, and others that seemed not well handled by the press.
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
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