
Stanley Fish
Smart People Podcast
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How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One
Stanley Fish: Most of the books that I find good books that were written a long time ago and they wouldn't always appeal to younger readers at least right off the bat. One of my favorite novels is a novel written in 1915 by an author called Ford Maddox Ford called The Good Soldier. John Bunyan's Cogans Progress, which was written in the 17th century. In order to learn how to read, which is part of learning how to write, you have to learn both how to go slow and to like going slow.
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