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May 1986, age nineteen Everyone’s a critic here, and the critics are always, always winning.
Claire Dederer • Love and Trouble
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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Its monstrous disregard for anything but the self.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
I finally had to stop reading his book. I can’t handle an A-plus mind expressing itself in C-minus sentences. I believe too strongly that mind and language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
E. B. White makes the case cogently in The Elements of Style, a book every writer should read once a year, when he suggests trying to rearrange any phrase that has survived for a century
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Susan Sontag was America’s last great literary star, a flashback to a time when writers could be, more than simply respected or well regarded, famous.