“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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