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- Writing is a transaction
When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, your mind becomes powerfully concentrated. You begin to understand that …
- Still Writing!
When writers who are just starting out ask me when it gets easier, my answer is never. It never gets easier. I don’t want to scare them, so …
- Six Rules of Writing
George Orwell’s six elementary rules (“Politics and the English Language”, 1946): Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech …
- On Writing
I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of …
- The Empty Space
“Writers are often asked, How do you write? With a processor? an electric typewriter? a quill? longhand? But the essential question is, …