title: Where the Writer Meets the Road: A Collection of Articles, Broadcast Intros and Profiles
author:  Sam Posey 
description: If Sam Posey, the very fast and capable racing driver, writes a book, I want to read it. He has a way with words just as he did with a steering wheel and the gas pedal. --Dan Gurney
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  WRITE TO THE POINT
  
  
  Sam Leith is literary editor at the _Spectator_ , contributes columns to the
  _Financial Times,_ the _Evening Standard_ and _Prospect,_ and his work appears
  regularly in the _Guardian, The Times_ and the _TLS_ among others. His
  broadcasting work has included appearances on The Culture Show, The Review
  Show, Front Row, the News Quiz, Fry’s English Delight and a regular slot on
  the Sky Arts Book Programme.
  
  
  ALSO BY SAM LEITH
  
  
  _Non-fiction_  
  You Talkin’ to Me: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama  
  Dead Pets: Eat Them, Stuff Them, Love Them  
  Sod’s Law: Why Life Always Lands Butter Side Down
  
  
  _Fiction_  
  The Coincidence Engine
  
  
  # **WRITE TO THE POINT**
  
  
  **HOW TO BE CLEAR, CORRECT  
  AND PERSUASIVE ON THE PAGE**
  
  
  **SAM LEITH**
  
  
  ![image](../Images/pub.jpg)
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2017 by  
  PROFILE BOOKS LTD  
  3 Holford Yard  
  Bevin Way  
  London WC1X 9HD  
   _[www.profilebooks.com](http://www.profilebooks.com)_
  
  
  Copyright © Sam Leith, 20