Advice
for Writers
by Kurt Vonnegut
Find a subject
you care about.
Do not ramble,
though.
Keep it simple.
Have guts to
cut.
Sound like
yourself.
Say what you
mean.
Pity the
readers.
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"It is the nature of stupid
people to hide their perplexity and attack what they cannot
grasp." - John Gardner
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populations has in no way increased the amount of art; it has
merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be
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