What Austin Kleon thinks about taste

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American writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work! and Keep Going, and maker of blackout poems. He has blogged at austinkleon.com since 2005.

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1. 7 Sept 2023

   Our readingThe mediocre is the only thing worth avoiding: the best and the worst both teach you something, the middle teaches nothing.

   Their wordsWhat you want to avoid, I think, is mediocre writing, which neither thrills nor instructs.

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