Reading Like A Writer: A Guide For People Who L... -

"It's necessary to hold the concept of clarity as an even higher ideal than grammatical correctness".

This New York Times bestseller is a masterclass in , urging writers and book lovers to slow down and study literature word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence. Prose argues that before there were creative writing degrees, writers learned their craft simply by reading their predecessors. Key Lessons from the Book Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who L...

: She emphasizes that "reading quickly—for plot, for ideas, even for psychological truths—can be a hindrance" to truly understanding how literature is built. "It's necessary to hold the concept of clarity

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