writing

“I think there's a paradox in that most fields, the more you do it, the better you get and the easier it gets. I think writing, especially writing about a single topic like investing, It's the other way around in that. So I've written 3600 articles now. So the …”

“What's definitely true, and I've heard this from other writers too, is that when you sit down and try to force yourself to think about a topic, you're never gonna get it. If you sit down and say, okay, I need to think about something What am I going to write? …”

“And then, you know, I just do three hours every day of the writing because it's about all I can stomach.”

“One hour a day of writing, you'll write a novel in a year, guaranteed.”

“Making decisions in the moment while you're writing I think part of you knows you're making the wrong decision. Like even if the book should be in first person or present or past tense, like these are very big decisions that if you haven't thought about them a…”

“Once you get yourself with the low expectation of the low bar, it works. Cause then some days, many days after the a hundred words, you're like, Ooh, I can keep going.”

“The only reason writing becomes, ah, easy to read is because it's hard to write. And writing is just hard. I think of writing as it's like running. If you're going to run your best, it's always gonna hurt. And so if you can run a five minute mile and then you …”

“They lose the punch in the previous paragraph of, you know, the eight sentences and the punch is the last one. And I say, take the punch out and make it its own paragraph. It looks weird in the eyes of an editor because it is associated with the paragraph befo…”

“Every word that you write is actually an obstacle that the reader does not want to have to go through. Your book is an obstacle between them and the result that they want.”