On Writing

“I can remember picking up my father’s books before I could read. The words themselves were mostly foreign, but I still remember the exact…

On Writing
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“I can remember picking up my father’s books before I could read. The words themselves were mostly foreign, but I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a sudden clarity, the purpose of a paragraph. I didn’t have the vocabulary to say “paragraph,” but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose. They had some specific reason for being inside the same fence.”

— Sherman Alexie

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