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“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around it, put the date that you\u2019re doing the copying out, and then copy it out. You\u2019ll find that you just soak into that prose, and you\u2019ll find that the comma\u00a0means\u00a0<\/em>something, that it\u2019s there for a reason, and that that adjective is there for a reason, because the copying out, the handwriting, the becoming an apprentice\u2014or in a way, a servant\u2014to that passage in the book makes you see things in it that you wouldn\u2019t see if you just moved your eyes over it, or even if you typed it. If your verbal mind isn\u2019t working, then stop trying to make it work by pushing, and instead, open that spiral notebook, find a book that you like, and copy out a couple paragraphs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n