“Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.”
Source: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. XXXII
“The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.
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