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I noticed this after spotting my favorite bloggers—including Paul Graham, Angela Jiang, and Derek Sivers—post erratically whereas the writers I often regret reading publish as much as they can.)
Julian Shapiro • Highlights: Three New Books 🍌
To point out other people’s errors was a duty that Mr Bulstrode rarely shrank from,
George Eliot • Middlemarch
The difference between a sentence that is pleasing (that feels vivid and truthful and undeniable) and compels the reader to read the next, and one that displeases her and shoots her out of the story is—well, I find I can’t complete that sentence, not in any general way. And I don’t need to. To be a writer, I only need to read a specific sentence of
... See moreGeorge Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
“The editor is the professional in the poet.” — Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
Some editors are put off by brilliant but idiosyncratic manuscripts and some, such as Perkins, are enticed by them.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Dr. Seuss’s management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Just a moment...
bookshop.orgWith an opener by Graham Greene (‘One never knows when the blow may fall’ – The Third Man) or Robert Harris (‘The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away’ – The Ghost) there is reassurance that we are going to enjoy clear, smooth, swift writing
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
BLOGS AND PERSONALITIES Andrew Chen’s essays http://andrewchen.co Noah Kagan’s blog http://okdork.com Patrick Vlaskovits http://vlaskovits.com/blog www.twitter.com/pv Jesse Farmer http://20bits.com Sean Ellis http://www.startup-marketing.com http://growthhackers.com Paul Graham’s essays http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html Aaron Ginn http://www.
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