Reasons Why I...: Ten Rules of Writing from Zadie Smith
  1. When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
  2. When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
  3. Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t….

I agree.

(Source: The Atlantic)

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