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33b04e2 There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe. writing-style Horace Walpole
16d7f6d Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. writers-on-writing writing writing-style Flannery O'Connor
28c11c8 It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much. writers-on-writing writing writing-fiction writing-style Flannery O'Connor
6b32db9 Art consist of a writer or painter's psychosis extirpated on the canvas of his choosing, a truism whether one is inspecting a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece or deciphering the incomprehensible utterings and dissociated ramblings of one of the Philistines framed in the picaresque novel 'Confederacy of Dunces, written by American novelist John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969). essayist memoir-writing writers-on-writing writers-quotes writers-voice writing writing-philosophy writing-process writing-style Kilroy J. Oldster