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There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
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Horace Walpole |
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Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
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writing
writing-style
writers-on-writing
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Flannery O'Connor |
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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.
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writing
writing-fiction
writing-style
writers-on-writing
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Flannery O'Connor |
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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).
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writing
memoir-writing
writers-voice
writing-style
essayist
writers-on-writing
writing-philosophy
writers-quotes
writing-process
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Kilroy J. Oldster |