Reads tagged with “writing”
Margaret Atwood’s 10 Rules of Writing
“Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.”
Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing
“Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
How to Read Like a Writer
“All the elements of good writing depend on the writer’s skill in choosing one word instead of another.”
Story of a Writer: Ray Bradbury on Storytelling and Human Nature in 1963 Documentary
“Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.”
Several Short Sentences About Writing
“You can say smart, interesting, complicated things using short sentences. How long is a good idea?”
Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
“Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”
Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
Ezra Pound’s List of the Six Types of Writers, Plus His Two Rules for Forming an Opinion
A taxonomy of scribe sensibilities, with some advice on how to make up your mind.
A Few Don’ts for Those Beginning to Write Verse from Ezra Pound
“Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.”
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