You learn almost nothing from writing you finished in a couple of days; the pieces that took months are the ones you still remember years later.

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• Learning to think by writing is slow, tedious, difficult work that takes discipline and patience. RHRyan Holiday7 May 2026
• The essay a student hands in is not the point of education; the thought process that produced it is the entire desired outcome. MKMartin Kleppmann22 Apr 2026
• In ten years few people will be able to write, or want to read, anything longer than a page or two — and the few who still can will be powerful. PGPaul Graham21 Aug 2026
• Writing is how the thinking gets done, so a writer who hands the words to a machine has given away the part that mattered. MKMartin Kleppmann22 Apr 2026
• Writing gets better when it is handled physically, like a collage of scraps pushed around, rather than composed. AKAustin Kleon12 Oct 2022

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