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How Celeste Ng writes fiery prose

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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How Much of Writing Is Reading?

I learned so much from reading things that I wouldn't ordinarily have picked up. That was as much of the educational experience as being in the class. Malcolm Gladwell, literally learning to write by typing out William F Buckley novels and getting a feel for the arc of a story by by owning the words in a way. So what is you, almost like the rhythm it like it's learning how to improvise in the piano kind of like that. And I think about retracing the rhythm of those words that will be fodder for future neuroscientists but I don't know if you are kind of engraving a neural pathway.

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