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Old 11-07-2011, 11:56 AM   #78
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Not for me: I learned from reading everyone else's work while honing my own. If I was going to pick particular writers, I might go with Arthur C. Clarke and Lester Dent, who taught me two extremes of writing that I try to meet in the middle.
That's almost exactly what Damon Knight says in his introduction. The way he and his contemporaries learned was from reading other authors and studying how they did it.
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