Goodreads asked Tom Shroder:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Tom Shroder Never think that writing well is about the words and sentences. It's about the ideas, information, sensations and insights behind the words. You can have brilliant ideas and screw it up by failing to find the words to express them, but you can always keep working on it until the words get out of your way and the ideas come through. But if you don't have anything interesting or important to say in the first place, no amount of beautiful words or clever turns of phrase will ever make what you write worth reading.

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