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Adventures in Style (chronicle.com)
5 points by samclemens 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments




“I write,” Marcus tells us, “to discover what I want to say and how to say it.”

I used to say that some people don't know what they think until it comes out their mouths. Writing -- good writing -- is often an exercise in the writer thinking deeply about something in a meatier way than merely thinking about it without trying to articulate it.

Sometimes in some sense for the first time.




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