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This is Paul Graham.
Moi Jamri • 34 cards
Taste for Makers
paulgraham.com
putting down first what you want the reader to do, next the three most important things the reader needs to understand to take that action, then starting to write.
Kenneth Roman • Writing That Works
Italian Chancery Script, which, somewhat informally, I use to this day, and made a careful study of the typographical techniques of Eric Gill, who designed such classic type-faces as Perpetua, Times Roman, and Gill Sans-serif (which seems to be oddly unavailable in the United States).
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Ernest Hemingway said the book was “something over 60% shit.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Style is your writing. It is inexorably knotted to the content of your words and the nature of you.
Gary Provost • 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated): Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power
Paul Graham • How to Write Usefully
Paul Graham • How to Write Usefully
David Ogilvy’s Confessions of an Advertising Man. The numbered paragraphs, the boxes drawn around the articles, are all Ogilvy’s ideas. I still think his books are the best on advertising that I’ve ever read and I recommend them.