: Narrated by Nanette Savard, available on Audible and Barnes & Noble . Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose: Book Review
: 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.
"Every word choice, every sentence, and every paragraph is a deliberate decision that brings a piece of literature to life". "A one-sentence paragraph feels like a punch".
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The "piece" you're looking for is Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them.
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"It's necessary to hold the concept of clarity as an even higher ideal than grammatical correctness".
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