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← Reading bad work is instructive as well as reassuring, so a maker should not read only the good stuff.

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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Reading bad work is instructive as well as reassuring, so a maker should not read only the good stuff. Reading bad work isinstructive as well asreassuring, so a maker… AK Austin Kleon — holds since 2023-09-07 Same subject: Going to read work you know is good when your own is going badly is legitimate recalibration, not theft. — tap to centre the map on it Going to read work youknow is good when your… GS George Saunders — holds since 2026-08-06 Same subject: A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on. — tap to centre the map on it A first draft shouldnot be graded good or… GS George Saunders — holds since 2026-08-06 Same subject: The mediocre is the only thing worth avoiding: the best and the worst both teach you something, the middle teaches nothing. — tap to centre the map on it The mediocre is theonly thing worth… AK Austin Kleon — holds since 2023-09-07 Same subject: A first draft is necessarily bad, and that is exactly why one has to be written. — tap to centre the map on it A first draft isnecessarily bad, and… AK Austin Kleon — holds since 2022-10-12 Same subject: A writer should keep a public list of the things they got significantly wrong, so that readers can judge their credibility. — tap to centre the map on it A writer should keep apublic list of the… SA Scott Alexander — holds since 2019-08-21 Same subject: You should only start a book you believe is going to be great, whatever it turns out to be. — tap to centre the map on it You should only start abook you believe is… ML Michael Lewis — holds since 2025-12-15 Same subject: Reviewers can tell the obviously good from the obviously bad, but there is a messy middle where they cannot tell at all. — tap to centre the map on it Reviewers can tell theobviously good from the… JR José Luis Ricón — holds since 2021-01-20 Same subject: Reading fiction is necessary to an engineer's creative capacity; reading only technical books drains it — tap to centre the map on it Reading fiction isnecessary to an… VB Vicki Boykis — holds since 2024-12-31
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