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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Kurt Vonnegut
4w ago

An American engineering student spent months visiting the heads of German factories ("the masters") to understand how they think.

1mo ago

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty, and the better for a master hand — not from without, but from the discipline we impose upon ourselves when we understand what the work demands.

1mo ago

The moment a man begins to talk about technique, that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

1mo ago

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. The moment you think you have mastered something, you have merely learned enough to see how far you have yet to go.

1mo ago

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

1mo ago

I asked him how he's able to do that in front of everyone last night. He said really such an enchanting thing. Instead of sitting there and trying to tell someone else, 'No, no, it goes like this. No, no, do it like this,' you just do it yourself and then you know the way the song goes. You know what the drum part's supposed to be, what kind of groove you want. You're just beating yourself up to get it right.

2mo ago

I want to feel what it feels like to make that song go. I think that's taught me to recognize when a song of my own feels right.

6mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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