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Get in Touch with Your Crayon Box
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Vonnegut’s seventh rule: “Pity the readers”:
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
fact-bound writer can’t go: worlds of imagination, rumination and fantasy. In return we enter into a more forgiving contract with him, allowing him to come at his subject slowly, discursively, obliquely, elliptically or just plain densely if that’s his vision. Density, in fact, is one of the qualities that William Faulkner’s fans most like about
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say? Surprisingly often they don’t know.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
‘You’re our longest-serving contributor,’ said Carleton, flinching at the bang. ‘Our most admired. Indeed I should say our most popular.’ I’m beginning to speak like him, he thought: Thomas Hart is catching, that’s the trouble. ‘I’ve often heard it said that it’s a consolation – that’s the general feeling, as I said to the board – to wake on
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On Writing Well
Solomon Muigai • 1 card