ADVICE TO WRITERS

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In Quickness Is Truth

Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers…. What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth dead-falling or tiger-trapping.

RAY BRADBURY