“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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