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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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creative-process
precision
thinking
thought
writing
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David McCullough |
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But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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precision
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Ernest Hemingway |
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"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ ; November 16, 1857]"
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precision
storytelling
writing
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Henry David Thoreau |
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There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
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language
precision
vocabulary
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Chris Gardner |
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A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
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possibility
precision
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Jules Verne |
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"Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [
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deliberate-creation
deliberation
myths
precision
urban-myths
writing
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Colm Tóibín |
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"There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time . . . .
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precision
war
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?
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precision
wonder
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Rebecca Goldstein |