“Before I start a book, I try to get it down to, I said a sentence or at most a paragraph and say, really, what is this book about? And I try to make everything hang together around that point.”
Robert Caro · Dwarkesh Podcast · Robert Caro - The master biographer reflects at 91
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before starting a book, he writes a one-sentence (or short paragraph) summary of the book’s purpose and uses it to keep everything aligned
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“I just go, write me three paragraphs. You got to get the book in three paragraphs. Treat it like hardcover, flat copy. Two or three paragraphs on what the book is, what the subject is, and one paragraph on why you're the perfect person to write this book.”
“Well, you know, I started this book club because first - before I started the book club, I started a production company probably 10 years ago because all the scripts I was getting were just so god-awful.”
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