Quote of the Day | 0614
Writers perforce read differently from everyone else. Most people ask three questions of what they read: (1) What is being said? (2) Does it interest me? (3) Is it well constructed? Writers also ask these questions, but two others along with them: (4) How did the author achieve the effects he has? And (5) What can I steal, properly camouflaged of course, from the best of what I am reading for my own writing? This can slow things down a good bit.
Joseph Epstein, ‘Heavy Sentences’
[x]#8887 fan dinsdag 14 juni 2011 @ 21:24:45
