David Perell interviewed the author Anne Lamott (29 April 2026).
“I have a priest friend, who actually just passed, an old man named Terry Richie. And he said ‘the point is not to try harder, it’s to resist less.’“
Continue reading “The writer’s job is to pay attention to life as it tromps by”Tren Griffin wrote a blog post titled A Half Dozen Lessons About Writing and Getting a Book Published (22 September 2017).
Continue reading “Tren Griffin’s Lessons about Writing and Getting a Book Published”Paul Graham wrote an essay titled Good Writing (May 2025).
« I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right… Fixing sentences that sound bad seems to help get the ideas right. »
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