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Writers on the craft of writing sentences: great advice for naming

writers on the sentence
Jhumpa Lahiri and Don DeLillo have some ideas about writing. And crafting sentences.

Writers write, so of course they’ve weighed-in on the craft of writing itself, and specifically the craft of writing sentences. And some of that advice for writing great sentences can be applied seamlessly to the naming process.

You could say that naming is the shortest form of writing there is. Maybe that’s why I’ve always found inspiration in the process and advice of great authors.

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Kurt Schwitters’ Cottage: following the text to see where it leads

Kurt Schwitters - Cottage
Kurt Schwitters, Cottage, 1946. Paper Collage. 10 × 8 3/10 in / 25.5 × 21.2 cm. Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin.

Kurt Schwitters (1887 – 1948) was a German artist who “worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.”

Schwitters fled Nazi Germany in January, 1937. He went first to Norway and finally to England, where he remained in exile until his death in 1948. His collage work often included found fragments of commercially printed text, and his move from Germany to England precipitated a corresponding shift to English language found text in his collages, as seen in Cottage, from 1946, above.

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