Like A Writer: A Guide For People Who L...: Reading

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This New York Times bestseller is a masterclass in , urging writers and book lovers to slow down and study literature word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence. Prose argues that before there were creative writing degrees, writers learned their craft simply by reading their predecessors. Key Lessons from the Book Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who L...

: She emphasizes that "reading quickly—for plot, for ideas, even for psychological truths—can be a hindrance" to truly understanding how literature is built. : Usually between $9

: Prose delights in showing how "rules" (like picking a single point of view) can be broken by any writer skillful enough to pull it off. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who L...