Ideas into Words

Аннотация

To write nonfiction, whether “science writing” or any other kind, is an act of intimacy. You are inviting the reader into your world—into your mind, no less. As your close companion, the reader will share the alien cadences of your thought. He will borrow your vocabulary, no doubt of a flavor not quite his own. He will be at the mercy of your skills to see, to hear, to think and feel, to assess people and draw them out, to persist until you really know—and, of course, to put what you know into words. It requires a certain trust, to be a reader.