![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Linda Caroll]] - Full Title: 10 Famous Writers Contradict Common Writing Advice - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/ba732544776e ## Highlights - When you can see, that’s how you make people feel. - Seeing is first. Words are second. - Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.” — Kurt Vonnegut - “If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.” — Maya Angelou