{"id":10709,"date":"2011-05-11T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T07:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/11\/leo-strauss-on-reading-and-writing\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T07:56:22","slug":"leo-strauss-on-reading-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/11\/leo-strauss-on-reading-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Strauss on Reading and Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

     It is a general observation that people write as they read. As a<\/span>
     rule, careful writers are careful readers and vice versa. A careful<\/span>
     writer wants to be read carefully. He cannot know what it means to<\/span>
     be read carefully but by having done careful reading himself.<\/span>
     Reading precedes writing. We read before we write. We learn to<\/span>
     write by reading. A man learns to write well by reading well good<\/span>
     books, by reading most carefully books which are most carefully<\/span>
     written. (Quoted from Edwin Curley, Behind the Geometrical Method:<\/em><\/span>
     A Reading of Spinoza's Ethics, <\/em>Princeton University Press, 1988,<\/span>
     p. ii.)<\/span><\/p>\n

   "We learn to write by reading."  This is why reading good books is<\/span>
   essential to becoming a good writer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing:      It is a general observation that people write as they read. As a     rule, careful writers are careful readers and vice versa. A careful     writer wants to be read carefully. He cannot know what it means to     be read carefully but by having done careful reading … Continue reading “Leo Strauss on Reading and Writing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strauss-leo","category-studiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}