Esther Schindler on Nostr: Dr. Seuss spent nine months composing The Cat in the Hat. It uses just 220 different ...

Dr. Seuss spent nine months composing The Cat in the Hat. It uses just 220 different words and is 1,702 words long. He was a meticulous reviser, and he once said: "Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count."

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