English majors, professors are OK

Good writers teach you how to shape stories. They select verbs with precision. They splash scenes together and make it look easy. I told them to read every Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Read well-written books on history, economics, physics, politics. Read, read, read. Albert Einstein and John Kenneth Galbraith are among the clearest writers I’ve encountered, and if you don’t know who they are, please find out.

Read like an English major.

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