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: 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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The "piece" you're looking for is Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. "It's necessary to hold the concept of clarity

"It's necessary to hold the concept of clarity as an even higher ideal than grammatical correctness".

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