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All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.…
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What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond…
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Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.
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Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead…
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Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
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You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you…
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words…
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Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
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If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we…
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There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
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The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again,…
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