Writing, Briefly
Metadata
- Author: Paul Graham
- Full Title: Writing, Briefly
- URL: http://paulgraham.com/writing44.html
Highlights
Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re bad at writing and don’t like to do it, you’ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated. (View Highlight)
expect 80% of the ideas in an essay to happen after you start writing it (View Highlight)
read your essays out loud to see (a) where you stumble over awkward phrases and (b) which bits are boring (the paragraphs you dread reading); (View Highlight)
Read your writing aloud to improve it
ask friends which sentence you’ll regret most (View Highlight)