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: She suggests reading your work aloud can not only improve its quality but help you catch "rubbishy" words that hide in plain sight. Famous Quotes

: 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. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who L...

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 : She suggests reading your work aloud can

: Narrated by Nanette Savard, available on Audible and Barnes & Noble . Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose: Book Review Prose argues that before there were creative writing

: She emphasizes that "reading quickly—for plot, for ideas, even for psychological truths—can be a hindrance" to truly understanding how literature is built.