: She suggests reading your work aloud can not only improve its quality but help you catch "rubbishy" words that hide in plain sight. Famous Quotes
: She emphasizes that "reading quickly—for plot, for ideas, even for psychological truths—can be a hindrance" to truly understanding how literature is built.
"Every word choice, every sentence, and every paragraph is a deliberate decision that brings a piece of literature to life". "A one-sentence paragraph feels like a punch". Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who L...
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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 : She suggests reading your work aloud can
"It's necessary to hold the concept of clarity as an even higher ideal than grammatical correctness".
: Prose delights in showing how "rules" (like picking a single point of view) can be broken by any writer skillful enough to pull it off. "A one-sentence paragraph feels like a punch"
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