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: Prose delights in showing how "rules" (like picking a single point of view) can be broken by any writer skillful enough to pull it off.

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This New York Times bestseller is a masterclass in , urging writers and book lovers to slow down and study literature word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence. Prose argues that before there were creative writing degrees, writers learned their craft simply by reading their predecessors. Key Lessons from the Book Prose argues that before there were creative writing

: She emphasizes that "reading quickly—for plot, for ideas, even for psychological truths—can be a hindrance" to truly understanding how literature is built.

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