"In addition to watching the rhythm of his scene--the tempo or pace--the writer pays close attention, in constructing the scene,…
Frederick Barthelme's The 39 Steps: A Primer on Story Writing, begins: Step one in the great enterprise of a new…
Here is one of the most economical sentence pairings I've come across in a while: He couldn't remember his wife…
"So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax…
"...a detective must find it as important as a novelist to amass his trivial material before picking out the right…
What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.…
"I have tried to disregard as much as possible the history of literature. When my students asked me for a…
I have read almost all of Croce, and though I am not always in agreement with him, I am enchanted…
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