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fact-bound writer can’t go: worlds of imagination, rumination and fantasy. In return we enter into a more forgiving contract with him, allowing him to come at his subject slowly, discursively, obliquely, elliptically or just plain densely if that’s his vision. Density, in fact, is one of the qualities that William Faulkner’s fans most like about
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
This is the true and exact account of the Great Cigar Fraud, and the moral of it is this–that civilisation is founded upon abstractions.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
‘the morals of the
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
hardscrabble
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Ernest already had plans for the royalties from the book. He was going to establish a trust fund for his family with the earnings from the first 70,000 copies; everything beyond that was going toward the purchase of a boat.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
